Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Block Size 7

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-30

  Abel, R Julian R ^a   Greig, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Greig Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

BIBD; Group Divisible design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040075327     PISSN: 09251022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008204220755     Document Type: Article

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