A symbiotic business relationship exists between materials suppliers and construction contractors. Specifically, contractors must continually purchase materials on credit to complete projects, whilst suppliers exist on the profits made from selling such. In the absence of this indirect source of...

Two-level supersaturated designs (SSDs) are designs that examine more than n-1 factors in n runs. Although SSD literature for both construction and analysis is plentiful, the dearth of actual applications suggests that SSDs are still an unproven tool. Whether using forward selection or...