Nested balanced incomplete block designs

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 231, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 351-389

  Morgan, J P ^a   Preece, D A ^b   Rees, D H ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Almost resolvable designs; Automorphism; Balanced doubles schedules; Calibration designs; Difference construction; Existence; Isomorphism; Kramer Mesner technique; Multiply nested BIBDs; Nested t designs; Perpendicular arrays; Pitch tournament designs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035962012     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-365X(00)00332-0     Document Type: Article

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