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First, construct the set C1 of candidates for the first confounding rule, taking into account the set M of effects not to be confounded with zero. If C1 is empty, then no design is possible; otherwise, choose one of the candidates for the first confounding rule and construct the set C2 of candidates for the second confounding rule, taking both M and r1 into account. If C2 is empty, choose another candidate from C1; otherwise, choose one of the candidates rules and go on to the third rule. The search continues either until it succeeds in finding a rule for every non-run-indexing factor or the search fails because the set C1 is exhausted.
The algorithm used by the FACTEX procedure to select confounding rules is essentially a depth-first tree search. Imagine a tree structure in which the branches connected to the root node correspond to the candidates C1. Traversing one of these branches corresponds to choosing the corresponding rule r1 from C1. The branches attached to the node at the next level correspond to the candidates for the second rule given r1. In general, each node at level i of the tree corresponds to a set of feasible choices for rules r1, ... , ri, and the rest of the tree above this node corresponds to the set of all possible feasible choices for the rest of the rules.
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