Volume 40, Issue 1 pp. 712-721
RESEARCH ARTICLE

A general construction method for component orthogonal arrays

Chunyan Wang

Corresponding Author

Chunyan Wang

Center for Applied Statistics, School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

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Chunyan Wang, Center for Applied Statistics, School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.

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Caleb King

Caleb King

JMP Statistical Discovery, LLC, Cary, North Carolina, USA

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Dennis K. J. Lin

Dennis K. J. Lin

Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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First published: 07 September 2023
Citations: 1

Abstract

Order-of-addition (OofA) experiments have gained renewed attention in recent years, especially in regard to their design. For these experiments, the response is determined by the order in which components are added. A particularly useful design introduced in OofA experiments is the component orthogonal array (COA). The COA maintains pairwise balance between any two components while also ensuring each component appears equally often in each position. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for constructing COAs which can be naturally split into blocks of Latin squares. These blocks can be run sequentially in a systematic order, potentially requiring fewer runs to identify optimal orderings, while also preserving good properties should the overall design be needed. We also show how to extend this construction method to create designs for any number of components.

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