Studies in Quality Improvement II. An Analysis for Unreplicated Fractional Factorials

Abstract

In industrial experimentation it is frequently true that a large proportion of process variation is associated with a small proportion of the process variables. In such circumstances of effect sparsity unreplicated fractional designs have frequently been effective in isolating preponderant factors. A very useful graphical analysis for such experiments due to Cuthbert Daniel employs normal probability plotting. A more formal analysis is presented here which might be used to supplement such plots. Key Words: Fractional factorials, effect sparsity, normal plotting, Bayesian analysis, robust samples.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA153539

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  • George E. Box
  • R. D. Meyer

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  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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  • Data Science
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  • Factorial Design
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