Seminar Notice

Statistical Laboratory
Iowa State University

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, February 2, 2006, 11:00 a.m.

PLACE:  319 Snedecor

SPEAKER: Christine M.Anderson-Cook, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico

TITLE:  Graphical Methods for Design Assessment for a Variety of Types of Experiments


ABSTRACT


Frequently, several competing designs are possible for a given experiment, and one important aspect of the designs which is worthwhile to consider comparing is their ability to predict throughout the design space. This talk will illustrate how fraction of design space (FDS) plots and 3-dimensional variance dispersion graphs (3-D VDG) provide extensive visual information for better understanding of how different designs can be compared. The methods will be illustrated with a variety of different design types, including split-plot designs, and mixture-process designs. The performance of different designs may differ greatly depending on where in design spaces we wish to make new predictions. In addition, for the split-plot case, additional parameters for the model need to be specified in order to fully understand design performance. The methods, which allow for comparison between several designs, will be illustrated with several examples.

COFFEE:  10:40 a.m., 104 Snedecor Hall

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Jeanette La Grange
Department of Statistics
102 Snedecor
Iowa State University
Ames, IA  50010-1210
515 294-3440 (office)
515 294-4040 (fax)
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