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In the 1940’s, in a series of seminal papers (Rao, 1946a, 1947, 1949), C. R. Rao introduced certain combinatorial arrangements with applications to statistics. Although Rao (1946a) at first considered only a subclass of these arrangements, the entire class became quickly known by their current name of orthogonal arrays (or OA’s). Since their introduction, many prominent researchers have found a source of inspiration in this fascinating subject. Both statisticians and mathematicians can be credited with significant contributions to this field.
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Hedayat, A.S., Sloane, N.J.A., Stufken, J. (1999). Introduction. In: Orthogonal Arrays. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1478-6_1
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