Existence of directed GDDs with block size five

Journal of Combinatorial Designs

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 389-402

  Bennett, F E ^a   Shalaby, Nabil ^b   Yin, Jianxing ^c  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Directed group divisible design; Group divisible design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040674790     PISSN: 10638539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6610(1998)6:6<389::AID-JCD1>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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