Design And Analysis Of Experiments, Volume 1: Introduction To Experimental Design

This userfriendly new edition reflects a modern and accessible approach to experimental design and analysisDesign and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 1, Second Edition provides a general introduction to the philosophy, theory, and practice of designing scientific comparative experiments and also details the intricacies that are often encountered throughout the design and analysis processes. With the addition of extensive numerical examples and expanded treatment of key concepts, this book further addresses the needs of practitioners and successfully provides a solid understanding of the relationship between the quality of experimental design and the validity of conclusions.This Second Edition continues to provide the theoretical basis of the principles of experimental design in conjunction with the statistical framework within which to apply the fundamental concepts. The difference between experimental studies and observational studies is addressed, along with a discussion of the various components of experimental design: the errorcontrol design, the treatment design, and the observation design. A series of errorcontrol designs are presented based on fundamental design principles, such as randomization, local control (blocking), the Latin square principle, the splitunit principle, and the notion of factorial treatment structure. This book also emphasizes the practical aspects of designing and analyzing experiments and features:Increased coverage of the practical aspects of designing and analyzing experiments, complete with the steps needed to plan and construct an experimentA case study that explores the various types of interaction between both treatment and blocking factors, and numerical and graphical techniques are provided to analyze and interpret these interactionsDiscussion of the important distinctions between two types of blocking factors and their role in the process of drawing statistical inferences from an experimentA new chapter devoted entirely to repeated measures, highlighting its relationship to splitplot and splitblock designsNumerical examples using SAS to illustrate the analyses of data from various designs and to construct factorial designs that relate the results to the theoretical derivationsDesign and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 1, Second Edition is an ideal textbook for firstyear graduate courses in experimental design and also serves as a practical, handson reference for statisticians and researchers across a wide array of subject areas, including biological sciences, engineering, medicine, pharmacology, psychology, and business.