The design is a compact diagnostic screen for pure, pairwise, and collective blend behavior.
NIST defines the coordinate structure of the design.
A q-component simplex-centroid contains each pure component, every equal binary and higher-order subset, and the equal-proportion all-component centroid, for a total of two to the q minus one unique points.
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