Cyclic balanced sampling plans excluding contiguous units with block size four

Guo, Chao; Wang, Xiaomiao; Feng, Tao

doi:10.1016/j.disc.2022.112899

Cited by 4 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 36 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Uniform strong difference families have been implicitly used in the literature for many years and they have been formally introduced for the first time in [4]. Since then, they have been explicitly used in many papers [3,9,10,11,14,16,17,20,23,28]. Non-uniform SDFs have been used in [6] for the construction of the so-called Hadamard partitioned difference families also considered in [24].…”

Section: Harmonious Strong Difference Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Partitioned difference families: The storm has not yet passed

Buratti¹,

Jungnickel²

2023

AMC

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Two years ago, we alarmed the scientific community about the large number of bad papers in the literature on zero difference balanced functions, where direct proofs of seemingly new results are presented in an unnecessarily lengthy and convoluted way. Indeed, these results had been proved long before and very easily in terms of difference families.In spite of our report, papers of the same kind continue to proliferate. Regrettably, a further attempt to put the topic in order seems unavoidable. While some authors now follow our recommendation of using the terminology of partitioned difference families, their methods are still the same and their results are often trivial or even wrong. In this note, we show how a very recent paper of this type can be easily dealt with.

show abstract