Experimental design for formulation / Wendell F. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Wendell F. (Wendell Franklyn), 1931-

Contributor:

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Series:

ASA-SIAM series on statistics and applied probability ; 15.

ASA-SIAM series on statistics and applied probability ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental design.

Physical Description:

1 electronic text (xix, 367 p. : ill.) : digital file.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 3600 Market Street, Floor 6, Philadelphia, PA 19104), 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Summary:

Many products, such as foods, personal-care products, beverages, and cleaning agents, are made by mixing ingredients together. This book describes a systematic methodology for formulating such products so that they perform according to one's goals, providing scientists and engineers with a fast track to the implementation of the methodology. Experimental Design for Formulation contains examples from a wide variety of fields and includes a discussion of how to design experiments for a mixture setting and how to fit and interpret models in a mixture setting. It also introduces process variables, the combining of mixture and nonmixture variables in a designed experiment, and the concept of collinearity and the possible problems that can result from its presence. Experimental Design for Formulation is a useful manual for the formulator and can also be used by a resident statistician to teach an in-house short course. Statistical proofs are largely absent, and the formulas that are presented are included to explain how the various software packages carry out the analysis. Many examples are given of output from statistical software packages, and the proper interpretation of computer output is emphasized. Other topics presented include a discussion of an effect in a mixture setting, the presentation of elementary optimization methods, and multiple-response optimization wherein one seeks to optimize more than one response.

Contents:

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Part I: Preliminaries

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Mixture Space

Chapter 3: Models for a Mixture Setting

Part II: Design

Chapter 4: Designs for Simplex-Shaped Regions

Chapter 5: Designs for Non-Simplex-Shaped Regions

Chapter 6: Design Evaluation

Chapter 7: Blocking Mixture Experiments

Appendix 7A: Mates for Latin Squares of Order 4 and 5

Part III: Analysis

Chapter 8: Building Models in a Mixture Setting

Chapter 9: Model Evaluation

Chapter 10: Model Revision

Chapter 11: Effects

Chapter 12: Optimization

Part IV: Special Topics

Chapter 13: Including Process Variables

Chapter 14: Collinearity

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-361) and index.

Title from title screen, viewed 10/20/2010.

Description based on title page of print version.

ISBN:

0-89871-839-2

Publisher Number:

SA15 siam

SA15 SIAM