Statistical design and analysis of experiments : "An unabridged republication of the work first published by the Macmillan Company, New York, 1971"--T.p. verso

This is a reprint of Peter John classic book on experimental designs originally published by MacMillan but now reprinted by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in their Classics in Applied Mathematics series. The book was written in 1971 and there have been many changes in philosophy for experimental designs since then. Also the revolution in computing has had an influence. In his "Preface to the Classics Edition" John reflects on the state of computing in 1966 when he first contracted to write the book and 1998 when the book was reprinted. He also describes the history of experimental design and extends it to the advances of Taguchi. It was industrial applications that attracted John to do research in experimental designs and he see industry as a rich source for design problems. The text covers all the classical design work with examples from agriculture and industry. It has heavy coverage of incomplete block designs and in Chapter 13 he demonstrates how to construct the various balanced incomplete block designs. There is a lot of theory. Although the title says design and analysis it is primarily a book on designs. Response surface methods and the evolutionary operation approach are also covered.... Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 12 Preface to the Classics Edition......Page 14 References in the Preface......Page 24 CHAPTER 1 Introduction......Page 26 CHAPTER 2 Linear Models and Quadratic Forams......Page 42 CHAPTER 3 Experiments with a Single Factor......Page 64 CHAPTER 4 Experiments with Two Factors......Page 91 CHAPTER 5 Experiments with Several Factors......Page 111 CHAPTER 6 Latin Square Designs......Page 130 CHAPTER 7 Factors with Two or Three Levels;Confounding......Page 148 CHAPTER 8 Fractions of 2n Factorial Designs......Page 173 CHAPTER 9 Fractional Factorials with More Than Two Levels......Page 202 CHAPTER 10 Response Surfaces......Page 218 CHAPTER 11 Incomplete Block Designs......Page 244 CHAPTER 12 Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs......Page 275 CHAPTER 13 The Existence and Construction of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs......Page 293 CHAPTER 14 The Existence and Construction of Partially Balanced Designs......Page 313 CHAPTER 15 Additional Topics in Partially Balanced Designs......Page 335 Appendix......Page 354 Bibliography......Page 364 Index......Page 376 Readers will find this book an invaluable reference on the design of experiments. It contains hard-to-find information on topics such as change-over designs with residual effects and early treatment of analysis of covariance. Other topics include linear models and quadratic forms, experiments with one or more factors, Latin square designs, and fractions of 2n factorial designs. There is also extensive coverage of the analysis of incomplete block designs and of the existence and construction of balanced and partially balanced designs. A new preface (to the classics edition) describes the changes made in experimental design since the book was first published in 1971. It discusses the use of personal computers to analyze data and details the emergence of industrial statistics.