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INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
960:490:01, Spring 2005 |
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(revised 02/25/2005) |
| Topics | ||
| Introduction, principles of experimental design, review of statistical inference | ||
| Class cancelled: instructor ill | ||
| Completely randomized designs (CRD), the analysis of variance (ANOVA), residual analysis, F-max test*, multiple comparison procedures: Fisher's LSD | ||
| Multiple comparison procedures continued: Newman-Keuls SNK*, Tukey's HSD, Scheffé's test for contrasts; orthogonal/pre-planned contrasts, dispersion effects, non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test | ||
| Principles of blocking, randomized complete block designs (RCB), Latin square designs | ||
| Balanced incomplete block designs (BIB), introduction to factorial designs, interaction plots | ||
| Factorial designs continued, blocking in a factorial design, random factors, mixed models, expected mean squares (EMS), nested designs | 14.1-14.2 |
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| Nested designs continued, Review | ||
| 2k designs, regression modeling and response surfaces, center points, testing for pure quadratic curvature in the response surface | ||
| Blocking and confounding in the 2k design, defining contrasts/block generators, partial confounding** | ||
| Two-level fractional factorial designs, the one-half and one-quarter fraction of the 2k design, alias structures, design resolution index | ||
| Response surface methodology (RSM), method of steepest ascent, stationary point classification, canonical forms, central composite designs (CCD), axial runs | ||
| Catch-up and Review | ||