Group divisible designs with block size four and group type g um1 with minimum m

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-126

  Ge, Gennian ^a   Ling, Alan C H ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Double group divisible designs; Group divisible designs

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING;

DOUBLE GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS; GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS (GDD); PARALLEL CLASSES;

DESIGN;

EID: 14744281548     PISSN: 09251022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10623-003-4197-9     Document Type: Article

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