FMS072 Statistical Design of Experiments
Spring 2013

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Week #	Day & Time	Topic	Supporting Material
12	Monday, March 18, 10: -12:00, KC:B	Lecture 1, introduction. · Comparing Two Entities Reference Distributions, Tests, the Blocking principle, and Confidence intervals	BHH 3.1-3.5 Slides
12	Tuesday March 19, 15:15-17:00 or Friday March 22, 10:15-12:00 MH:229 (both times)	Before the session you should do the following. · Download R from r-project.org Download the RStudio IDE from rstudio.com · If you have no or very little experience with R, go through "A sample session" in http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf · The main aim is getting used to the simple statistical machinery of R: paired and un-paired T-tests, Wilcoxons rank sum test, normal probability plots	Instructions (PDF) Solutions
15	Tuesday, April 9, 8.15-10:00 KC:D	Comparing a number of Entities, Randomized Blocks, and Latin Squares Notes	BHH2, chapter 4
15	Tuesday, April 9, 15.15-17:00 Friday April 12, 10:15-12:00 MH:229 (both times)	Simple ANOVA with R.	Instructions (PDF) Solutions Solution to the hand-in Data sets Mangold.txt BHH2P0401highwayPaint.txt BHHProbl0403weightLoss.txt BHHProbl0404unstable.txt
16	Monday, April 15, 10.15-12:00 KC:D	What a mathematical perspective can give: Model validation, Sample size calculation Notes	BHH2, chapter 4
16	Tuesday, April 16, 15.15-17:00 Friday April 19, 10:15-12:00 MH:229 (both times)	Model validation and sample size	Instructions (PDF) Solutions Data sets BHHProbl0402burnTreat
17	Monday, April 22, 10.15-12:00 KC:D	Multiplicity issues, Sample size, Factorial design at two levels Notes	Multiplicity issues and sample size are not covered in the book. Factorial design at two levels is in BHH2, chapter 5
17	Tuesday, April 23, 15.15-17:00 Friday April 26, 10:15-12:00 MH:229 (both times)		Instructions (PDF) Solutions Data sets WheatYields.txt
18,19	Monday, April 29, 10.15-12:00 KC:D	Factorial design at two levels, continued. Notes	Topics from chapter 5 and an little from chapter 6.
18,19	Friday May 3, 10:15-12:00 Tuesday, May 7, 15.15-17:00 MH:229 (both times)		Instructions Solutions Data sets: BHHProbl0506coliform.txt BHHProbl0507chemical.txt BHHProbl0509UnburnedHydro.txt BHHProbl0510Reaction.txt BHHProbl0601unburnedCarbons.txt BHHProbl0602justData.txt Functions: cubePlot.R plotCoeff.R normPlot.R LenthPlot.R
20	Monday, May 13, 10.15-12:00 KC:D	Adding a center point, Factors at more than one level, Data Transformation, and Variance Component Models Notes	Chosen topics from Chapter 5, 8, 9, and 10
20	Tuesday, May 14, 15.15-17:00 Friday May 17, 10:15-12:00 MH:229 (both times)		Instructions Solutions Data sets: BHHProbl1011Missing.txt BHHProbl0516solarEnergy.txt BHHProbl0519pollutant.txt BHH2P0801UnknownData.txt BHH2P0802clay.txt varianceComponents01.txt Functions: lambdaPlot.R
21	Monday, May 20, 10.15-12:00 KC:D	Recap of the course. (See under "Latest News" for information about the examination.)
21	Tuesday, May 21, 15.15-17:00 Friday May 24, 10:15-12:00 MH:229 (both times)	No new exercises, but you can get help with any of the old ones. No help with the home exam will be given.