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Since the development of methods for the analysis of experiments with dependent data, see for example Gleeson and Cullis (1987), the design of such experiments has been an area of active research. We investigate the design of factorial experiments, complete and fractional, for various dependency structures. An algorithm for generating optimal or near optimal designs is presented and shown to be useful across a wide range of dependency structures.
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Elliott, L.J., Eccleston, J.A. & Martin, R.J. An algorithm for the design of factorial experiments when the data are correlated. Statistics and Computing 9, 195–201 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008965829964
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