The Paley construction gives a Hadamard matrix of order p+1 if p is
prime and p+1 is a multiple of 4. This is then expanded to order
\((p+1)\times 2^k\) using the Sylvester construction.
paley
knows primes up to 7919. The user can specify a prime
with the prime
argument, in which case a matrix of order
\(p+1\) is constructed.
If check=TRUE
the code uses is.hadamard
to check that
the resulting matrix really is of Hadamard type, in the same way as in
the example below. As this test takes \(n^3\) time it is
preferable to just be sure that prime
really is prime.
A Hadamard matrix including a row of 1s gives BRR designs where the
average of the replicates for a linear statistic is exactly the full
sample estimate. This property is called full orthogonal balance.