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Additivity and interaction are defined for a three-component mixture experiment, and studied both for polynomial models and factorial models. The notion of the blandness of a component is introduced. Linear blending is equivalent to the combination of no interaction and the blandness of all three components.
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Darroch et al. (1985) studied this question.
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