INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
960:490:01, Spring 2005


APPROXIMATE LECTURE SCHEDULE
(revised 02/25/2005)

Below is a very approximate lecture schedule. The mid-term exam date is tentative until confirmed in class. SAS implementations will be incorporated when appropriate.

Date
Topics
Text
01/20
Introduction, principles of experimental design, review of statistical inference
Ch. 1-2
01/27
Class cancelled: instructor ill
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02/03
Completely randomized designs (CRD), the analysis of variance (ANOVA), residual analysis, F-max test*, multiple comparison procedures: Fisher's LSD
3.1-3.5
02/10
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
3.5-3.10
02/17
Principles of blocking, randomized complete block designs (RCB), Latin square designs
4.1-4.2
02/24
Balanced incomplete block designs (BIB), introduction to factorial designs, interaction plots
4.4, 5.1
03/03
Factorial designs continued, blocking in a factorial design, random factors, mixed models, expected mean squares (EMS), nested designs
5.2-5.6
14.1-14.2
03/10
Nested designs continued, Review
14.1-14.2
03/17
SPRING BREAK
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03/24
MID-TERM EXAM (Ch. 1-5, 14)
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03/31
2k designs, regression modeling and response surfaces, center points, testing for pure quadratic curvature in the response surface
6.1-6.7
04/07
Blocking and confounding in the 2k design, defining contrasts/block generators, partial confounding**
7.1-7.8
04/14
Two-level fractional factorial designs, the one-half and one-quarter fraction of the 2k design, alias structures, design resolution index
8.1-8.4
04/21
Response surface methodology (RSM), method of steepest ascent, stationary point classification, canonical forms, central composite designs (CCD), axial runs
11.1-11.3
04/28
Catch-up and Review
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05/05
FINAL EXAM, 8:00PM -- 11:00PM, location TBD
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* = topic is not in the textbook, ** = topic may be omitted if there is a time constraint





Last revised: 1700 EST 02/25/2005
pannuch@stat.rutgers.edu
http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/~pannuch/