Optimum Experimental Designs (Hardcover)

Part I. Fundamentals; Introduction; Some key ideas; Experimental strategies; The choice of a model; Models and least squares; Criteria for a good experiment; Standard designs; The analysis of experiments; Part II. Theory and applications; Optimum design theory; Criteria of optimality; Experiments with both qualitative and quantitative factors; Blocking response surface designs; Restricted region designs; Failure of the experiment and design augmentation; Non-linear models; Optimum Bayesian design; Discrimination between models; Composite design criteria; Further topics.