Designing and running super-efficient experiments: Optimum blocking with one hard-to-change factor

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-45

  Anbari, Frank T ^a,c,d   Lucas, James M ^b,c,e  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b J M Lucas and Associates   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Decision Sciences ^*

^d ASQ

^e J M Lucas and Associates

Author keywords

Block size; Cost function; Expensive to change factors; G efficiency; Prediction variance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BLOCK SIZE; EXPENSIVE-TO-CHANGE FACTORS; G-EFFICIENCY; PREDICTION VARIANCE;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 39449128875     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2008.11917711     Document Type: Article

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