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  <dc:title>Optimal Row-Column Designs for Asymmetrical Factorial
Experiments</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MFRCD version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Constructs and analyzes optimal row-column designs for mixed-level
            factorial experiments under two field situations like square field layouts,
            where the number of rows and columns are equal, and rectangular field layouts,
            where one blocking direction is determined by a selected block size. 
            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 derived from r package mixedfact, 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 provides diagnostic
            tools for connectedness, orthogonal factorial structure, balance, estimability,
            A-, D-, and E-efficiency, E-optimality, and MV-optimality criterion values.
            These designs are practically useful in agricultural, industrial, and biological
            experiments where treatments have factorial structure and heterogeneity must be
            controlled simultaneously in two directions.</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>2026-05-06</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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