Since 1965 almost all of the contributions to the design and analysis of factorial experiments have involved fractional factorial plans. These contributions may be categorized by three main classes of ...

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Vol. 21, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 106-113 (8 pages) In organic pasture systems, the balance of soil fertility is maintained by maximizing the cycling of on-farm ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAS/QC software provides two procedures for the design of experiments. The FACTEX procedure constructs factorial experimental designs, which are useful for studying the effects of various factors on a ...

In physical and computer experiments, factorial designs and space-filling designs are frequently employed to explore the relationship between several input factors and a response variable. Several new ...