TY - JOUR
T1 - Quintessential pairwise balanced designs
AU - Bennett, Frank E.
AU - Colbourn, Charles J.
AU - Mullin, Ronald C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks to Malcolm Greig, James Hirschfeld, and Doug Stinson, and special thanks to Alan Ling, for pointing out relevant work. Thanks to Malcolm Greig and Don Kreher for helpful comments on the paper. Thanks especially to a very careful and painstaking referee. Research of all three authors is supported by NSERC Canada.
PY - 1998/9/1
Y1 - 1998/9/1
N2 - The existence of pairwise balanced designs with block sizes from a set K is studied. The spectrum of orders for which such PBDs exist is determined when (5)⊂K⊆(5,6,7,8,9), with relatively few possible exceptions in each case.
AB - The existence of pairwise balanced designs with block sizes from a set K is studied. The spectrum of orders for which such PBDs exist is determined when (5)⊂K⊆(5,6,7,8,9), with relatively few possible exceptions in each case.
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U2 - 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00021-4
DO - 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00021-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0007075551
SN - 0378-3758
VL - 72
SP - 15
EP - 66
JO - Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
JF - Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
IS - 1-2
ER -