Abstract:
The concept of orthogonal design of experiments is generalized and some new ideas are proposed in this paper. Let us consider the model
Y=
η(
X)+
εwhere
Y can be observed and
ε is the random error. One always makes assumption that
η(
X) is the linear combination of known function
φi(
X),
i=1, …,
p, for classical expe- rimental design. But now,
η(
X) is assumed to be a function defined on
Rm. We consider
X as a random vector taking value in
Rm. Any distribution of
X is called a design, and if its components are independent of each other, then it is called orthogonal. Let
Xa=(
xi2,
xi2, …,
xiα) with 1≤
i1≤
i2…<
iα≤
m, 1≤
α≤
m, and \mu\left(X_a\right)=\sum_\beta=0^\infty(-1)^a-\beta \sum_X_a \subset X_\theta M\left(X_\beta\right) where
M (
Xβ)=
E (
η(
X)/
Xβ) then
μ(
Xα) is called interactive effective function among
xi1,
xi2…,
xiα. In this paper, we give the decomposition \eta(X)=\sum_\beta=0^m \sum_X_A \subset X \mu\left(X_B\right) and discuss the properties of effective function for generalized orthogonal experimental designs. Finally, some numerical examples are given.