(Ebook) Planning, Construction, and Statistical Analysis of Comparative Experiments by Francis G. Giesbrecht, Marcia L. Gumpertz ISBN 9780471213956, 0471213950

(Ebook) Planning, Construction, and Statistical Analysis of Comparative Experiments by Francis G. Giesbrecht, Marcia L. Gumpertz ISBN 9780471213956, 0471213950

At once a comprehensive handbook for the active researcher and a thorough introduction for the advanced student, this reference provides: * Coverage of wide range of applications, including agricultural sciences, animal and biomedi-cal sciences, and industrial and engineering studies * Information on new developments in the design of fractional factorials with non-prime numbers of levels in mixed-level fractional factorials * Detailed information on the construction of plans and the relationships among categories of designs * Thorough discussion of balanced, partially balanced, lattice, cyclic and alpha-designs * Accommodations for how to evaluate the power and efficiency of designs that are not perfectly balanced * Unified and simplified presentation of general forms for estimation and hypothesis testing