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		Characterization and Diagnostic Tools for Factorial Block Designs
		// 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) doi:10.1214/aos/1013699993, and
		Gupta (1983) doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1983.tb01253.x. These
		methods assist in selecting, comparing, and studying factorial
		block designs across a range of experimental situations.
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