THIS BOOK OFFERS A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO THE EXPERIMENTAL PLANNING PROCESS AND THE ENSUING ANALYSIS OF NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED DATA, EMPHASIZING THE PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS GOVERNING THE DESIGN OF AN EXPERIMENT. DATA SETS ARE TAKEN FROM REAL EXPERIMENTS AND SAMPLE SAS PROGRAMS ARE INCLUDED WITH EACH CHAPTER. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE; THIS BOOK WILL SERVE AS A MODERN AND COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE TO THE SUBJECT.
“The textbook provides a practically oriented version of design and analysis of experiments. The corresponding methods are illustrated by means of numerous simple experiments. Thus, the models and methods are equipped with many examples, exercises, numerical results and related tables and figures. ... The present volume can be recommended as textbook for lectures on models and methods of experimental design as well as handbook for use in practice.” (Kurt Marti, zbMATH 1383.62001, 2018)