TITLE:
Identify the Optimal Baseline Design from the Plackett-Burman Design
AUTHORS:
Mingze Xin
KEYWORDS:
Baseline Design, Plackett-Burman Design, Cyclic Generation Method
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.16 No.1,
January
22,
2026
ABSTRACT: In recent years, baseline designs have garnered extensive attention due to their broad applicability across numerous fields. In order to select excellent baseline designs, Mukerjee and Tang (2012) proposed the
K
-aberration criterion. The Plackett-Burman design represents a classic category of non-regular designs and has been relatively less studied as a baseline design. This paper, starting from the Plackett-Burman design, investigates the properties it exhibits when employed as a baseline design. We have obtained an important property: The sub-designs constructed from the column sets of the Plackett-Burman design with equivalent distance vectors possess the same
K
-aberration sequence. This property improves the efficiency of our search for the optimal
K
-aberration sub-designs of Plackett-Burman design.