STAT 530 - Experimental Design

(3 units)

Prerequisite: STAT 381 or consent of instructor.
Design of experiments to permit efficient analysis of sources of variation with application to quality assurance. Factorial and fractional factorial designs; block designs; confounding. Fixed and random effect models. Effects of departure from assumptions; transformations. Response surface techniques. Taguchi methods.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hours) Not open for credit to students with credit in MATH 581.