Package: FactChar Type: Package Title: Characterization and Diagnostic Tools for Factorial Block Designs Version: 1.0 Authors@R: c( person("Sukanta", "Dash", email = "sukanta.iasri@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")), person("Vankudoth", "Kumar", email = "kumarvankudoth51@gmail.com", role = "aut"), person("Sunil Kumar", "Yadav", email = "kr.sunil.yaad@gmail.com", role = "aut"), person("Anil", "Kumar", email = "akumarchi72@gmail.com", role = "aut"), person("Med Ram", "Verma", email = "drmrverma@gmail.com", role = "aut")) Maintainer: Sukanta Dash Description: Description: Provides comprehensive tools for analysing and characterizing mixed-level factorial designs arranged in blocks. Includes construction and validation of incidence structures, computation of C-matrices, evaluation of A-, D-, E-, and MV-efficiencies, checking of orthogonal factorial structure (OFS), diagnostics based on Hamming distance, discrepancy measures, B-criterion, Es^2 statistics, J2-distance and J2-efficiency, Phi-p optimality, and symmetry conditions for universal optimality. The methodological framework follows foundational work on factorial and mixed-level design assessment by Xu and Wu (2001) , and Gupta (1983) . These methods assist in selecting, comparing, and studying factorial block designs across a range of experimental situations. License: GPL-3 Encoding: UTF-8 Imports: MASS, Matrix RoxygenNote: 7.3.3 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-02 09:16:15 UTC; root Author: Sukanta Dash [aut, cre], Vankudoth Kumar [aut], Sunil Kumar Yadav [aut], Anil Kumar [aut], Med Ram Verma [aut] Repository: https://sukantaiasri.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2025-12-12 21:40:02 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/FactChar RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 040eb7e41d90670dd3f27f0830921f9d1ec09ffd