Construction of MV - and SMV - optimum designs for binary response models.

Recently, Dette and Sahm (1998) have put forward a procedure to construct MV-and SMV-optimurn designs for binary response models. In order to implement computationally this procedure some assumptions have to be made and some theoretical results must be proved. This paper provides the background to produce a computer code for computing local designs for different regions of the parameters of the model. Designs for some models used in practice are also provided as well as the efficiencies for estima the parameters.