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Amicable Orthogonal Designs-Existence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Warren Wolfe*
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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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Definition. An orthogonal design in order n and of type (u1, … , us) on the commuting variables x1, . . . , xs is an n X n matrix, X, with entries from the set ﹛0, ±x1, … , ±xs﹜ such that

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