Uniformity of Asymmetric Augmented Designs

Abstract

Follow-up experimental designs are widely applied to explore the relationship between factors and responses step by step in various fields such as science and engineering. When some additional resources or information become available after the initial design of experiment is carried out, some additional runs and/or factors may be added in the follow-up stage. In this paper, the issue of the uniform row augmented designs and column augmented designs with mixed two-, three- and four-level is investigated. The uniformity of augmented designs is discussed under the wrap-around L₂-discrepancy. Some lower bounds of wrap-around L₂-discrepancy for the augmented designs are obtained, which can be used to assess uniformity of augmented design. Numerical results show that augmented designs have high efficiency, which have low discrepancy and close to the proposed lower bounds.