The past six years have seen a substantial increase in the attention paid by research workers to the principles of experimental design. The Second Edition of brings this handbook up to date, while retaining the basic framework that made it so popular. Describes the most useful of the designs that have been developed with accompanying plans and an account of the experimental situations for which each design is most suitable. Examples come from diverse fields of research, with an emphasis on biology and agriculture, two of the authors' specialties. New chapters have been added: one discusses the fractional replication of experiments. A second is concerned with experiments of the factorial type that present new methods and designs in which the factors represent quantitative variables measured on a continuous scale. Other new material includes an introductory account of experimental strategies for finding the levels at which the factors must be set in order to obtain maximum response and coverage of new incomplete block designs.
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Chapter 1 : Introduction Chapter 2 : Methods for Increasing the Accuracy of Experiments Chapter 3 : Notes on the Statistical Analysis of the Results Chapter 4 : Completely Randomized, Randomized Block, and Latin Square Designs Chapter 5 : Factorial Experiments Chapter 6 : Confounding Chapter 6A : Factorial Experiments in Fractional Replication Chapter 7 : Factorial Experiments with Main Effects Confounded : Split-plot Designs Chapter 8 : Factorial Experiments Confounded in Quasi-Latin Squares Chapter 8A : Some Methods for the Study of Response Surfaces Chapter 9 : Incomplete Block Designs Chapter 10 : Latice Designs Chapter 11 : Balanced and Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs Chapter 12 : Lattice Squares Chapter 13 : Incomplete Latin Squares Chapter 14 : Analysis of the Results of a Series of Experiments Chapter 15 : Random Permutations of 9 and 16 Numbers
Selected Bibliography
List of Author References
Index
Tables of t and F
