Stat 507 - Experimental Design

Instructor: Chris Williams, Room 414 Brink Hall Phone: 885-2802 or 885-2929

Meeting times: MWF 12:30-1:20 JEB 026

Prerequisites: Stat 431 or equivalent coursework.

Office Hours: MWF 1:30-2:20 or by appointment.

email: chrisw@uidaho.edu

Texts: Design of Experiments: Statistical Principles of Research Design and Analysis (second edition) - Robert O. Kuehl

Webpage: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~chrisw/stat507/


The webpage will contain announcements, summaries of lectures, lists of assignments, and other information.

Objectives: Define quantitatively the most efficient ways to obtain knowledge from experiments with differing constraints for plot size, number of treatments, classes of experimental objectives and blocking procedures in terms of the general linear model. Develop a quantitative, defensible strategy for experimentation.

Lecture Outline - We will cover most of the material in the text, to be detailed in the lecture schedule.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Be able to distinguish between common experimental designs such as Completely Randomized, Randomized Block, Completely Randomized Factorial, Latin Square, Confounded Block Designs, Fractional Factorial Designs, Repeated Measures Designs, Split-Plot and related designs, and Analysis of Covariance Designs.
2. Understand the issues involved in choosing between common experimental designs.
3. Be able to analyze data arising from common experimental designs.
4. Understand the use of response surface methods to identify important factors and settings for those factors to yield optimal responses.

We will primarily use the SAS computer package, but we will often also have R code available.

Grading: Exams 90%; Project 10%. The final exam (Thursday, December 19 at 12:30 pm) has the same weight as other exams. Each exam will be preceded by a review session based on previously assigned homework problems.

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