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		Optimal Row-Column Designs for Asymmetrical Factorial Experiments
		// Constructs and analyzes optimal row-column designs for
		mixed-level factorial experiments under square and rectangular
		field layouts. For square field layouts, the package implements
		direct common-factor constructions by first forming two
		component treatment arrays, one for each factor or super-
		factor, and then combining them through a symbolic cell-wise
		product following Gopinath, Parsad and Mandal (2018)
		doi:10.1080/03610926.2017.1376091. For rectangular field
		layouts, the package constructs designs by extracting a
		balanced principal block from a mixed-level block design,
		treating it as the principal column, taking the complete
		treatment set as the principal row, and generating the full
		row-column design by cyclic modular development. The package
		also includes repair utilities for improving disconnected or
		partially connected row-column designs through bounded
		treatment-swap searches while preserving the row-column layout
		structure. The package provides diagnostic tools for
		connectedness, orthogonal factorial structure, balance,
		estimability, and selected optimality criteria for row-column
		designs.
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