Miscellanea: Nearly orthogonal arrays mappable into fully orthogonal arrays

Abstract

We develop a method for construction of arrays which are nearly orthogonal, in the sense that each column is orthogonal to a large proportion of the other columns, and which are convertible to fully orthogonal arrays via a mapping of the symbols in each column to a possibly smaller set of symbols. These arrays can be useful in computer experiments as designs which accommodate a large number of factors and enjoy attractive space-filling properties. Our construction allows both the mappable nearly orthogonal array and the consequent fully orthogonal array to be either symmetric or asymmetric. Resolvable orthogonal arrays play a key role in the construction. � 2014 Biometrika Trust.