Complementary design theory for sliced equidistance designs

The complementary design theory is powerful for searching for an optimal design when its complementary design is smaller. This paper introduces a new class of sliced equidistance designs and develops the corresponding complementary design theory under the generalized minimum aberration criterion. Two rules are established to search for a generalized minimum aberration design through its complementary design in a sliced equidistance design. As a result, the developed theory covers the related results for the whole designs being saturated designs as special cases. Some examples are presented to illustrate its usefulness.