D-optimal chemical balance weighing designs with positively correlated errors: part I

In this paper, the problem of indicating chemical balance weighing designs satisfying the criterion of D-optimality is considered. Moreover, we study such designs under the assumption that the measurements are equally positively correlated and they have the same variances. We formulate a method to add at most four runs to a regular D-optimal chemical balance weighing design to obtain a highly D-efficient chemical balance weighing deign.