A Family of \(D\)-Optimal Designs

Albert L. Whiteman1
1Department of Mathematics University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 U.S.A.

Abstract

A construction is given of a family of D-optimal designs of order \(n = 2v \equiv 2 \pmod{4}\), where \(v = 2q^2 + 2q + 1\) and \(q\) is an odd prime power. For \(q > 3\), all the orders of D-optimal designs produced by this construction are new.