Rerandomization in \(2^K\) factorial experiments (Q2176607)

Factorial experiments introduced orginally by Fisher and Yates have been widely used in the agricultural science and engineering. The classical factorial experiment often fails to balance covariates across multiple factorial effects simultaneously. ``Therefore, it is intuitive to restrict the randomization of the treatment factors to satisfy certain covariate balance criteria, possibly conforming to the tiers of factorial effects and covariates based on their relative importance.'' This is rerandomization in factorial experiment using the Mahalanobis distance criterion with tiers of factorial effects. An application to an education dataset is considered.