On the Construction of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs Using Lotto Designs

Researchers present two algorithms for constructing Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBD); the first, for determining the BIBDs that qualify to be Lotto Designs (LD) and the second for generating BIBDs from the LD parameters (n, k, p, t). The algorithms are tested using (υ = 6, b = 20, r = 10, k = 3, λ = 4) and (υ = 13, b = 130, r = 30, k = 3, λ = 4) BIBDs. One of the results, the (υ = 4, b = 4, r = 3, k = 3, λ = 2) BIBD which is pair wise balanced is shown to be D-optimal. Also, the (13, 130, 30, 3, 5) BIBD yielded (13, 56, 21, 3, 6), (13, 84, 28, 3, 7), (13, 120, 36, 3, 8) and (13, 165, 45, 3, 9) BIBDs; the first three being less cumbersome and more economical for experimental purposes. In general, a BIBD that qualifies as a LD can be used to generate other BIBDs.