Minimum Aberration 2k-p Designs

Fractional factorial designs-especially the twolevel designs-are useful in a variety of experimental situations, for example, (i) screening studies in which only a subset of the variables is expected to be important, (ii) research investigations in which certain interactions are expected to be negligible and (iii) experimental programs in which groups of runs are to be performed sequentially, ambiguities being resolved as the investigation evolves (see Box, Hunter and Hunter, 1978). The literature on fractional factorial designs is extensive. For references before 1969, see the comprehensive bibliography of Herzberg and Cox (1969). For more recent references, see Daniel (1976) and Joiner (1975-79). A useful concept associated with 2k-P fractional factorial designs is that of resolution (Box and Hunter, 1961). A design is of resolution R if no cfactor effect is confounded with any other effect containing less than R c factors. For example, a design of resolution III does not confound main effects with one another but does confound main effects with two-factor interactions, and a design of resolution IV does not confound main effects with two-factor interactions but does confound two-factor interactions with one another. The resolution of a two-level fractional factorial design is the length of the shortest word in the defining relation. Usually an experimenter will prefer to use a design which has the highest

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