IRREGULAR FRACTIONS OF FACTORIAL EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

The development of fractional plans which consist of irregular fractions of factorial experiments is presented. The plans found to be of greatest practical value are the 3/2 to the M power replicate plans for the 2 to the N power experiment. Although these plans introduce correlations between some of the estimates, the correlations do not affect individual tests on the parameters. Irregular fraction plans often permit the estimation of main effects and two-factor int ractions with fewer trials than is required with a plan which yields uncorrelated estimates of these parameters. The irregular fraction plans permit a simple procedure for obtaining estimates of the main effects and interactions of interest together with estimates of their variances, covariances and correlation coefficients. Examples of 3/2 to the M power replicate plans for the 2 to the N power experiment are presented. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0266356

Entities

People

  • Sidney Addelman

Organizations

  • Iowa State University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Covariance
  • Data Science
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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