Abstract Recently, there has been increasing interest in the use of heavily restricted randomization designs which … re-proving some known properties of complete randomization and restricted randomization. Second, we propose a novel … for any restricted randomization design and can be used to evaluate the trade-off between enforcing balance on observed …

literature is suitable for completely randomized designs, but it may not provide efficient plans for designs with restricted … randomization. Originality/value The authors provide a general framework for the practitioners and have extended the algorithm to …