NewcastleDurham PhD course
Design of Experiments

19-23 January 2009

 

This course will be given by John Matthews, j.n.s.matthews@ncl.ac.uk with assistance from Tom Nye and Andy Golightly.

The timetable for the course, including room locations, can be found here.

 

Groups

 

The groups for the group exercises, and some other activities, have been formed by a random process and are given here.

 

Example Sheets

These will be given out in lectures but are also available here.

1.      Example sheet 1

2.      Example sheet 2

3.      Example sheet 3

4.      Example sheet 4

 

Data sets

In Example Sheet 3, question 6, the data in this R workspace are needed.

In Example Sheet 3, question 7, the data in this R workspace are needed.

In Example Sheet 4 the data in this R workspace are needed.

 

Wednesday

 

The course on Wednesday will be given by Shirley Coleman and Tony Fouweather of ISRU in Lecture Theatre 3 on the ground floor of the Herschel Building. The programme can be found here.

Four datasets will be needed in the practical at the end of the day. These are:

1.      File 1

2.      File 2

3.      File 3

4.      File 4

 

Projects for Thursday/Friday

 

The Group projects are:

 

Group 1 Description Data

Group 2 Description Data

Group 3 Description Data

Group 4 Description Data

Group 5 Description Data

 

Some good books

 

These are not needed in the course but are good sources should you wish to take your study of DoE further

 

Atkinson, A.C., Donev, A.N. & Tobias, R.D. Optimum Experimental Designs, with SAS (2nd ed.) Oxford Statistical Science Series, 2007.

Bailey, R.A. Design of Comparative Experiments, C.U.P., 2008

Cox, D.R. The Planning of Experiment (1958, published in Wiley Classics Library, Wiley, 1992)

Cox, D.R. and Reid, N, The Theory of the Design of Experiments.  Chapman and Hall/CRCPress, 2000

Kempthorne, O., Hinkelmann, K. Design and Analysis of Experiments, vol. 1, Wiley

Silvey, S.D. Optimal Design, Chapman and Hall, 1980 (probably out of print)

 


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