STAT
531
Experimental Design
Hours
3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab
Semester
Fall
Basic designs, power and sample size, Latin squares, incomplete blocks, change-over designs, factorials, fractional factorials, confounding, split-plots, response surface designs.
Experimental Design Plan
Choose an experimental design plan that is appropriate for the research problem at hand
Construct the Design
Construct the design, including determining the proper number of replicates and the creation of a randomized data collection form
Collect the Data
Execute the plan to collect the data, or advise a colleague to do it
Determine the Model
Determine the model appropriate for the data
Fit the Model
Fit the model to the data, and verify that the assumptions have been satisfied
Interpret and Present
Interpret the results and present the data in a meaningful way to answer the research problem at hand