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Approaching pooling design with smaller efficient ratio

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In this paper, we employ affine symplectic space \({ASG(2\nu,\mathbb{F}_q)}\) as a tool to construct two new classes of d e-disjunct matrices. The efficiency ratio of new d e-disjunct matrices is smaller than that of D’yachkov et al. (J Comput Biol 12:1129–1136, 2005).

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Suogang Gao: Support in part by Natural Science Foundation of China, (10971052); Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China, (No. A2008000128).

Zengti Li: Support in part by Natural Science Foundation of Langfang Normal College, China, (LSZZ200901).

Hongjie Du, Yan Shi, and Weili Wu: Support in part by National Science Foundation under grants CCF 0621829 and 0627233.

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Gao, S., Li, Z., Du, H. et al. Approaching pooling design with smaller efficient ratio. J Glob Optim 49, 125–135 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10898-010-9538-4

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