Instructor:
Office:
Dr. Bob Stephenson
3111 Snedecor Hall
Phone: (515) 294-7805 email: wrstephe@iastate.edu
Course website: www.public.iastate.edu/~wrstephe/stat402.html
Office Hours: M W F 10:00 to 10:50 am, T Th 9:00 to 9:50 am
Lecture: and by appointment.
MWF 11:00 am to 11:50 am, 209 Marston
Required Text: Introduction to Design and Analysis of Experiments , George W.
Cobb, Springer, New York, 1998.
References: Statistics for Experimenters , G.E.P. Box, W.G. Hunter, and J.S. Hunter,
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1978.
Experimental Design , 2 nd
ed., W. Cochran and G. Cox, John Wiley &
Sons, New York, 1957.
Design and Analysis of Experiments , 4 th
ed., D. C. Montgomery, John
Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.
Objectives: By the end of the course, students should have an appreciation for the advantages and limitations of experimentation. They should be able to design experiments to generate appropriate data efficiently. They should be able to analyze data from designed experiments and reach justifiable conclusions based on those data and analyses.
Exams: There will be two exams and a final. You will be allowed to use formula sheets and a calculator. Parts of the exams may be “take home.” If you need to miss an exam because of circumstances beyond your control, please contact me before the exam. Do not make plans for the end of the semester that conflict with the final exam.
Homework: Individual practice is an important part of learning. For this reason homework problems will be assigned regularly.
Project: A project involving design, collection of data, analysis of data and, interpretation of results will be assigned. This will be a group project.
More details will be given later in the semester.
Iowa State University complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. If you have a disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please contact me during the first two weeks of the semester. Retroactive requests for accommodations will not be honored. Before meeting with me, you will need to obtain a SAAR form with recommendations for accommodations from the Disability
Resources/Learning Disabilities Office located in Room 1076 of the Student Services
Building. Their telephone number is 515-294-7220.
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Exam 1
Exam 2
Final Exam
Point distribution
Friday, February 17
Friday, April 6
Wednesday, May 2
Homework
Project Due Friday, April 27
Week of Material Covered
Jan. 9 Introduction: variability, principles, factor structure. Two-sample t-test.
Text
Chapter 1
Jan. 16 ANOVA: assumptions, informal analysis, basic ideas
Jan.
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Mar.
23 ANOVA: tests and confidence intervals
30 Content of an experiment
One-factor experiments: randomization
One factor experiments: sample size, formal analysis
Feb. 13 Factorial crossing: general ideas
Exam 1 – Friday, February 17
20 Factorial crossing: analysis
27 Blocking: general idea
5 Latin square design
Chapter 2
Mar. 12 ******* SPRING BREAK *******
Mar. 19 Split plot design Chapter 7
Mar. 26 Working with the basic design structures Chapter 8
Apr. 2 Extending the basics: three factors Chapter 9
Apr.
Exam 2 - Friday, April 6 blocks
Apr. 16 Experiments with a single replicate
Apr. 23 Experiments with fractional replication
Apr. 30 Final Exam - Wednesday, May 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Handouts,
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Handouts
Handouts
100
100
125
100
75
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