Math 420 - Experimental Design - Spring 2006

How to maximize the information gained from experiments.

Topics covered:

Analysis and design of experiments from the point of view of regression. Randomized block tests, split-plot and Latin square designs, full factorial models, full and partial confounding, fractional factorial designs, Plackett-Burman designs, resolution and projectivity of designs, and related topics.
SAS will be used for problems that require the use of a computer package. Previous familiarity with SAS is not required.

Prerequisites:

Mathematics 320 or the equivalent.

Course Hours and Room:

MWF 3:00-4:00pm -- Cupples I  Rm 207

Textbook:

Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery, 2nd edition,
G. Box, J. S. Hunter, and W. G. Hunter, John Wiley and Sons, 2005, ISBN 978-0471-71813-0

Instructor:

Prof. Stanley Sawyer -- Cupples I, Room 107
Phone: (314) 935-6703
Email: sawyer@math.wustl.edu

Links:

Homework Assignments
Takehome Final due Tuesday May 9 by 5 PM
Handouts   (including Guide to using SAS and P-value Calculator using SAS)
SAS programs covered or to be covered in class
Stanley Sawyer's home page
Mathematics Department Home Page
Washington University Home Page

Office Hours:

WF 4:00-5:00pm -- Rm 107 Cupples I
(Warn me in advance if you are coming  --  or other times by appointment)

Exams, Homework Sets, and Grades:

There will be around four or five homework sets, an inclass midterm, and a final. Grades will be based on on the homework sets (around 40%), the midterm (around 25%), and the final (around 40%). Cr means D or better if you elect ``Credit/No Credit.''

Collaboration:

Collaboration on homework is allowed and can be helpful (and fun). However, you must do all written work yourself, and write and run all computer programs yourself.

Warning:

Make a copy of each homework before you hand it in!!
It may not be returned before you need to refer to it for the next homework (or for the next test).

NOTE:   Always format your homework in the following way:

(i) your answers to all homework problems. For answers that you obtain using computer output, include references to page numbers in section (iii) below to your computer output if the output has more than one or two pages,
(ii) the source code for all computer program or programs that you used in part (i), and
(iii) all of the computer output on which you based your answers in part (i). If the output does not have consecutive computer-written page numbers, write your own page numbers on the top of each page and refer to these page numbers in part (i).

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Last modified May 10, 2006