Restrict Factor Level Combinations

When you complete the Factors outline and click Continue, the Restrict Factor Level Combinations outline appears. This outline enables you to specify factor level combinations that are prohibited. Unless you have loaded a constraint or included one as part of a script, the None option is selected. To specify constraints, select one of the other options:

Use Disallowed Combinations Filter

Defines sets of constraints based on restricting values of individual factors. You can define both AND and OR constraints. See Use Disallowed Combinations Filter.

Use Disallowed Combinations Script

Defines disallowed combinations and other constraints as Boolean JSL expressions in a script editor box. See Use Disallowed Combinations Script.

Use Disallowed Combinations Filter

This option uses an adaptation of the Data Filter to facilitate specifying disallowed combinations. For detailed information about using the Data Filter, see Local Data Filter in the Using JMP book.

To add disallowed combinations:

Select factors from the Add Filter Factors list and click Add.

Specify the disallowed combinations by selecting levels.

Note: The red triangle options in the Add Filter Factors menu are the same as those found in the Select Columns panel of many platform launch windows. See Column Filter Menu in the Using JMP book for additional details.

When you click Add, the initial panel is updated. The Disallowed Combinations control panel shows the selected factors and provides options for further control.

The Covering Array platform allows only categorical factors. For categorical factors, the possible levels are shown either as labeled blocks or, when the number of levels is large, as list entries. Select a level to disallow it. To select multiple levels, hold down the Ctrl key. The block or list entries are highlighted to indicate the levels that have been disallowed. When you add a factor to the Disallowed Combinations panel, the number of levels of the categorical factor is given in parentheses following the factor name.

Disallowed Combinations Options

Clear

Clears all disallowed factor level settings that you have specified. This does not clear the selected factors.

Start Over

Removes all selected factors and returns you to the initial list of factors.

AND

Opens the Add Filter Factors list. Selected factors become an AND group. Any combination of factor levels specified within an AND group is disallowed.

To add a factor to an AND group later on, click the group’s outline to see a highlighted rectangle. Select AND and add the factor.

To remove a single factor, select Delete from its red triangle menu.

Opens the Add Filter Factors list. Selected factors become a separate AND group. For AND groups separated by OR, a combination is disallowed if it is specified in at least one AND group.

Red Triangle Options for Factors

A factor can appear in several OR groups. An occurrence of the factor in a specific OR group is referred to as an instance of the factor.

Delete

Removes the selected instance of the factor from the Disallowed Combinations panel.

Clear Selection

Clears any selection for that instance of the factor.

Invert Selection

Deselects the selected values and selects the values not previously selected for that instance of the factor.

Display Options

Changes the appearance of the display. Options include the following:

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Blocks Display shows each level as a block.

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List Display shows each level as a member of a list.

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Single Category Display shows each level.

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Check Box Display adds a check box next to each value.

Find

Provides a text box beneath the factor name where you can enter a search string for levels of the factor. Press the Enter key or click outside the text box to perform the search. Once Find is selected, the following Find options appear in the red triangle menu:

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Clear Find clears the results of the Find operation and returns the panel to its original state.

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Match Case uses the case of the search string to return the correct results.

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Contains searches for values that include the search string.

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Does not contain searches for values that do not include the search string.

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Starts with searches for values that start with the search string.

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Ends with searches for values that end with the search string.

Use Disallowed Combinations Script

This option opens a script window where you insert a script that identifies the combinations that you want to disallow. The script must evaluate as a Boolean expression. When the expression evaluates as true, the specified combination is disallowed.

When creating the expression, use the name of the level in quotation marks. Do not use the ordinal value of the level. For example, Figure 20.19 shows the script that you entered in the phone interface example,Specify Disallowed Combinations Using a Script.

Note: In DOE platforms other than Covering Arrays, a script for disallowed combinations must specify the level number rather than the level name.

Figure 20.19 Script Window Showing Names of Levels in Quotes