Construction of marginally coupled designs by subspace theory

Abstract

Recent researches on designs for computer experiments with both qualitative and quantitative factors have advocated the use of marginally coupled designs. This paper proposes a general method of constructing such designs for which the designs for qualitative factors are multi-level orthogonal arrays and the designs for quantitative factors are Latin hypercubes with desirable space-filling properties. Two cases are introduced for which we can obtain the guaranteed low-dimensional space-filling property for quantitative factors. Theoretical results on the proposed constructions are derived. For practical use, some constructed designs for three-level qualitative factors are tabulated.