Balanced sampling plans with block size four excluding contiguous units

Australasian Journal of Combinatorics

Volumn 20, Issue , 1999, Pages 37-46

  Colbourn, Charles J ^a   Ling, Alan C H ^b  

^a University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0007329817     PISSN: 10344942     EISSN: 22023518     Source Type: Journal    
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