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  <dc:title>Optimal Row-Column Designs for Asymmetrical Factorial
Experiments</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MFRCD version 0.1.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Constructs and analyzes optimal row-column designs for
    mixed-level factorial experiments under square and rectangular field
    layouts. For square field layouts, the package implements direct
    common-factor constructions by first forming two component treatment
    arrays, one for each factor or super-factor, and then combining them
    through a symbolic cell-wise product following Gopinath, Parsad and
    Mandal (2018) &lt;doi:10.1080/03610926.2017.1376091&gt;. For rectangular
    field layouts, the package constructs designs by extracting a balanced
    principal block from a mixed-level block design, treating it as the
    principal column, taking the complete treatment set as the principal row,
    and generating the full row-column design by cyclic modular development.
    The package also includes repair utilities for improving disconnected or
    partially connected row-column designs through bounded treatment-swap
    searches while preserving the row-column layout structure. The package
    provides diagnostic tools for connectedness, orthogonal factorial
    structure, balance, estimability, and selected optimality criteria for
    row-column designs.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: mixedfact, roxygen2, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Sukanta Dash &lt;sukanta.iasri@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Archana A [aut],
  Sukanta Dash [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-05-11</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MFRCD</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MFRCD</dc:identifier>
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