Ethics committees and funding agencies often receive protocols that involve either too many or too few animals to answer the specific research question being investigated. It is evident that a greater ...

Methods for designing and analyzing industrial experiments. Blocking; randomization; multiple regression; factorial and fractional factorial experiments; response surface methodology; Taguchi’s robust ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recently, there have been many proposals for objectively analyzing unreplicated factorial experiments. We review these methods along with some ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 63, No. 4 (2001), pp. 633-672 (40 pages) One of the main advantages of factorial experiments is the information that ...

Experimentation is a vital part of the scientific method. Most problems in science require observation of the system at work and experimentation to elucidate information about how the system works. In ...

The classical design (factorial design, response surface design, etc.) may fail to meet our requirements due to an irregular design space, involving categorical variables, a nonstandard model and ...