SEQUENTIAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR NONLINEAR MODELS.

Abstract

To engineers, basic mechanism studies are of interest principally because a deeper understanding makes it possible to cope with engineering design problems in a more intelligent and useful manner than would be possible if the mechanism were entirely unknown. Such mechanism studies consist essentially of two steps: (i) establishing an adequate form for the theoretical model and then (ii) determining precisely the values of its parameters. In this paper it is supposed that step (i) has been accomplished and the form of the theoretical model is therefore known. The problem which confronts the experimenter now is the evaluation of the physical parameters (e.g., rate constants in chemical kinetics examples). The purpose of this paper is to consider the problem of generation of data, i.e., the statistical design of experiments.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0604258

Entities

People

  • George E. P. Box
  • William G. Hunter

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Experimental Design
  • Kinetics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Physics
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.