Experimental Design ConceptsBlocking(Chapters 14 amp; 15).ppt

STA 6166 Experimental Design Concepts:Blocking(Chapters 14 15) Experimental Design Basics. Completely randomized design revisited. Accounting for more than one factor. Blocking (and randomized block designs) to remove confounding. Why Experimental Design? Experimental design (for an experimental study): the manner in which the experimental units are arranged or grouped, and how the treatments are assigned to them. To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of