Robustness of Design

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Robustness of design is a vast topic – the Current Index to Statistics lists over 700 articles purporting to discuss it – and so we shall rst clarify our restricted interpretation of the term. By robustness of design we shall mean the scenario outlined in the next few paragraphs.