Design of experiments: Useful orthogonal arrays for number of experiments from 4 to 16

Entropy

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 198-232

  Bolboacǎ, Sorana D ^a   Jäntschi, Lorentz ^b  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Design of experiment; Orthogonal arrays; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749051820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e9040198     Document Type: Article

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