Mukerjee and Wu（2001） employed projective geometry theory to find the wordlength pattern of a regular mixed factorial design in terms of its complementary set, but only for the numbers of words of length 3 or 4. In ...Mukerjee and Wu（2001） employed projective geometry theory to find the wordlength pattern of a regular mixed factorial design in terms of its complementary set, but only for the numbers of words of length 3 or 4. In this paper, by introducing a concept of consulting design and based on the connection between factorial design theory and coding theory, we obtain some combinatorial identities that relate the wordlength pattern of a regular mixed-level （2^r）2^n factorial design to that of its consulting design. Consequently, a general rule for identifying minimum aberration （2^r）2^n factorial designs through their consulting designs is established. It is an improvement and generalization of the related result in Mukerjee and Wu（2001）.展开更多
文摘Mukerjee and Wu（2001） employed projective geometry theory to find the wordlength pattern of a regular mixed factorial design in terms of its complementary set, but only for the numbers of words of length 3 or 4. In this paper, by introducing a concept of consulting design and based on the connection between factorial design theory and coding theory, we obtain some combinatorial identities that relate the wordlength pattern of a regular mixed-level （2^r）2^n factorial design to that of its consulting design. Consequently, a general rule for identifying minimum aberration （2^r）2^n factorial designs through their consulting designs is established. It is an improvement and generalization of the related result in Mukerjee and Wu（2001）.
