DOE Simplified: Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation

by Mark J. Anderson

Offering a planned approach for determining cause and effect, DOE Simplified: Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation, Third Edition integrates the authors decades of combined experience in providing training, consulting, and computational tools to industrial experimenters. Supplying readers with the statistical means to analyze how numerous variables interact, it is ideal for those seeking breakthroughs in product quality and process efficiency via systematic experimentation.Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessors, this edition incorporates a lively approach to learning the fundamentals of the design of experiments (DOE). It lightens up the inherently dry complexities with interesting sidebars and amusing anecdotes.The book explains simple methods for collecting and displaying data and presents comparative experiments for testing hypotheses. Discussing how to block the sources of variation from your analysis, it looks at two-level factorial designs and covers analysis of variance. It also details a four-step planning process for designing and executing experiments that takes statistical power into consideration.This edition includes a major revision of the software that accompanies the book (via download) and sets the stage for introducing experiment designs where the randomization of one or more hard-to-change factors can be restricted. Along these lines, it includes a new chapter on split plots and adds coverage of a number of recent developments in the design and analysis of experiments.Readers have access to case studies, problems, practice experiments, a glossary of terms, and a glossary of statistical symbols, as well as a series of dynamic online lectures that cover the first several chapters of the book.

268 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2017

Reviews

[Alireza Nazarahari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have just finished this book and to be honest it could not be better than this.
As a Material science graduate student with almost limited (read no background) in statistics, this book at first helped me to understand the basics of statistics and then taught me how to understand DOE and perform it. It won't be a reference book for the people who want to go deep inside the field, but for sure it can help people like me to change the way of looking toward their research.

[Christian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book provides a solid introduction into the basics of design of experiments. It is significantly leaning towards factorial designs, and sadly not elaborating very much on mixture designs and response surface methods.

[Achuthan · Rating 5 out of 5]

nice book. worked out the problems. simple and practical. interspersed with dad jokes which kept me going.