Due to the importance, limited supply and perishable nature of blood products, effective management of blood collection is critical for high quality healthcare delivery. In this paper, working closely with the American Red Cross (ARC), we study a blood collection problem focusing on whole blood...

Motivated by a Bayesian framework, we propose a new minimum aberration-type criterion for designing experiments with two- and four-level factors. The Bayesian approach helps in overcoming the ad hoc nature of effect ordering in the existing minimum aberration-type criteria. The approach is also...