Title
Generation of Simplex Lattice Points
Abstract
The need to generate systematically all points on a simplex lattice arises in a variety of statistical applications, including searches for optimal block designs, enumeration of the support space of a multinomial distribution, and construction of mixture designs. A variety of computer algorithms to accomplish this task previously have been reported. We present a new algorithm to generate all simplex lattice points by simulating nested loops. We implement our algorithm and the most efficient alternatives as ANSI C functions, and analytically and empirically demonstrate that the performance of our algorithm is superior to that of the alternatives considered.
Disciplines
Categorical Data Analysis | Design of Experiments and Sample Surveys | Numerical Analysis and Computation
Suggested Citation
Chasalow, Scott and Brand, Richard, "Generation of Simplex Lattice Points" (August 1992). U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 36.
https://biostats.bepress.com/ucbbiostat/paper36
Comments
Complete text in Journal of Applied Statistics, 44(4), 534-545, 1995.