Research Article
Efficient Blocked Fractional Factorial Designs for Stated Choice
Experiments of Size Two and Four
Emmanuel Amoah ,
1
Jakperik Dioggban ,
2
and Adjabui Michael Jackson
3
1
C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Navrongo,
P.O. Box 24, hana
2
C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Department of Biometry, Navrongo, P.O. Box 24, hana
3
C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Navrongo, P.O. Box 24, hana
Correspondence should be addressed to Emmanuel Amoah; emmanuelamoah27@gmail.com
Received 5 January 2023; Revised 28 January 2023; Accepted 31 January 2023; Published 7 March 2023
Academic Editor: Sergey Evgenievich Barykin
Copyright © 2023 Emmanuel Amoah et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is
properly cited.
Stated choice experiments are increasingly becoming popular due to their ability to optimize information gain with limited
resources. Many designs have been developed for the selection of various attributes and their levels to form choice sets. One such
design is blocked fractional factorial design (BFFD). Stated choice experiments for symmetric attributes of 4 choice sets of sizes 2
and 4 and 8 choice sets of sizes 2 and 4 were developed using BFFDs. Generators for the stated choice set of sizes 2 and 4 with
resolution three, four, and fve were developed. Te alias structures and confounding efects for the designs were derived, as well as
their clear efects if any for estimation. Te A•efciency was used to compute the efciencies of the proposed designs since it has
better statistical properties. Te computed efciencies for the proposed designs reveal that 4 choice sets of size 4 designs are more
efcient. Finally, a practical application of the proposed method was carried out for four choice sets of size 4 using 2
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1. Introduction
Various strategies for constructing and analyzing stated
choice (SC) experiments had been proposed in the literature.
Most researches focus on the construction of the most
desirable SC experiments and experiments with two•level
attributes to mixed•level designs ([1–3]). Te authors of [4]
constructed SC experiments for paired designs, that is,
choice sets with two options, for the estimation of frst•order
interactions for two•level attributes.
Te authors of [5] developed block fractional factorial
designs with two• and three•level designs. Te authors of [6]
improved on the work of [5] designs through illustrations on
the two•level block fractional factorial designs for resolution
IV designs with choice set of size four with 2, 4, 16, 32 runs.
Te work of [5, 6] did not consider situations where the
number of attributes for the two•level designs exceeds nine.
Tis paper extends the work of [5] on 2•level block
fractional factorial designs for attributes between 4 and
10 inclusive using the techniques of [6] for choice sets of
sizes 2 and 4 to 8 choice sets on resolution three, four,
and fve designs.
On the measure of efciency, the D and A measures of
efciency focus on precise estimation of the model pa•
rameters, and the I and G measures of efciency focus on
precise predictions of the response [7]. Tis research
designs focus on the estimation of the model parameters;
hence, the D and A measures of efciency are preferred.
But according to [7] while there are many instances where
A and D efciency designs coincide, A efciency designs
tend to have better statistical properties when the A and D
efciency designs difer. Hence, this paper uses the A
efciency to compute the efciencies of the proposed
designs.
Hindawi
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2023, Article ID 2515605, 13 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/2515605