Title: Uniform designs based on F-squares

Authors: Bushra Husain; Sanghmitra Sharma

Addresses: Department of Statistics and O.R., Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India ' Department of Statistics and O.R., Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India

Abstract: Uniform designs are space filling designs that find applications in many diverse fields. Specifically, uniform designs may be used for computer experiments when the underlying model is too complicated and also for experiments pertaining to industries when the knowledge about the underlying model is vague. Usually, good lattice point sets are used to generate uniform designs. Some practical limitations require the use of F-square based designs. Fang, Shiu and Pan (1999) obtained uniform designs based on cyclic Latin squares. In this paper, we have obtained uniform designs based on cyclic F-squares. These designs have considerably less discrepancies as compared to those obtained by Wang and Fang (1981). The threshold accepting algorithm proposed by Fang, Shiu and Pan (1999) has been employed to obtain the cyclic F-squares with smallest L2-discrepancy. Numerical comparisons of centred L2-discrepancy of Latin square based designs with F-uniform designs indicate that the F-uniform designs have lower discrepancy.

Keywords: centred L2 discrepancy; experimental design; cyclic F-squares; threshold accepting algorithm; uniform design; uniformity; cyclic Latin squares.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEDPO.2016.080507

International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation, 2016 Vol.5 No.1/2, pp.53 - 67

Received: 26 Aug 2015
Accepted: 18 Dec 2015

Published online: 28 Nov 2016 *

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