Direct Constructions of Uniform Designs under the Weighted Discrete Discrepancy

Uniform designs are widely used in many fields in view of their ability to reduce experimentalcosts. In a lot of practical cases, different factors may take different numbers of values, so a mixed-level uniform design is needed. Since it is not reasonable to use the uniformity measure with the same weight for factors with different levels, the weighted discrete discrepancy was proposed in the existing literature. This paper discusses the construction method of mixed-level uniform designs under the weighted discrete discrepancy. The underlying method is to utilize some properties of partitioned difference families (PDFs) to obtain an infinite class of uniformly resolvable weighted balanced designs (URWBDs), which can directly produce corresponding uniform designs. Some examples are presented to illustrate the methods.