Abstract The objective of this paper is to study the issue of employing the uniformity criterion measured by the wrap-around L2-discrepancy to assess the optimal foldover plans for three-level designs.For three-level ...Abstract The objective of this paper is to study the issue of employing the uniformity criterion measured by the wrap-around L2-discrepancy to assess the optimal foldover plans for three-level designs.For three-level fractional factorials as the original designs,the general foldover plan and combined design under a foldover plan are defined,some theoretical properties of the defined foldover plans are obtained,a tight lower bound of the wrap-around L2-discrepancy of combined designs under a general foldover plan is also obtained,which can be used as a benchmark for searching optimal foldover plans.For illustration of the usage of our theoretical results,a catalog of optimal foldover plans for uniform initial designs with s three-level factors is tabulated,where 2≤ s ≤11.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11201177 and 11271147)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2013M531716)+2 种基金Scientific Research Plan Item of Hunan Provincial Department of Education(Grant No.12C0287)Jishou University Doctor Science Foundation(Grant No.jsdxxcfxbskyxm201113)Scientific Research Plan Item of Jishou University(Grant No.13JDY041)
文摘Abstract The objective of this paper is to study the issue of employing the uniformity criterion measured by the wrap-around L2-discrepancy to assess the optimal foldover plans for three-level designs.For three-level fractional factorials as the original designs,the general foldover plan and combined design under a foldover plan are defined,some theoretical properties of the defined foldover plans are obtained,a tight lower bound of the wrap-around L2-discrepancy of combined designs under a general foldover plan is also obtained,which can be used as a benchmark for searching optimal foldover plans.For illustration of the usage of our theoretical results,a catalog of optimal foldover plans for uniform initial designs with s three-level factors is tabulated,where 2≤ s ≤11.
