Planning and Executing Credible Experiments

A Guidebook for Engineering, Science, Industrial Processes, Agriculture, and Business

Robert J. Moffat, Roy W. Henk

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781119532866
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Maschinenbau

Covers experiment planning, execution, analysis, and reporting

This single-source resource guides readers in planning and conducting credible experiments for engineering, science, industrial processes, agriculture, and business. The text takes experimenters all the way through conducting a high-impact experiment, from initial conception, through execution of the experiment, to a defensible final report. It prepares the reader to anticipate the choices faced during each stage.

Filled with real-world examples from engineering science and industry, Planning and Executing Credible Experiments: A Guidebook for Engineering, Science, Industrial Processes, Agriculture, and Business offers chapters that challenge experimenters at each stage of planning and execution and emphasizes uncertainty analysis as a design tool in addition to its role for reporting results. Tested over decades at Stanford University and internationally, the text employs two powerful, free, open-source software tools: GOSSET to optimize experiment design, and R for statistical computing and graphics. A website accompanies the text, providing additional resources and software downloads.

• A comprehensive guide to experiment planning, execution, and analysis
• Leads from initial conception, through the experiment's launch, to final report
• Prepares the reader to anticipate the choices faced throughout an experiment
• Hones the motivating question
• Employs principles and techniques from Design of Experiments (DoE)
• Selects experiment designs to obtain the most information from fewer experimental runs
• Offers chapters that propose questions that an experimenter will need to ask and answer during each stage of planning and execution
• Demonstrates how uncertainty analysis guides and strengthens each stage
• Includes examples from real-life industrial experiments
• Accompanied by a website hosting open-source software

Planning and Executing Credible Experiments is an excellent resource for graduates and senior undergraduates—as well as professionals—across a wide variety of engineering disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Companion Website
• 1 Choosing Credibility
• 2 The Nature of Experimental Work
• 3 An Overview of Experiment Planning
• 4 Identifying the Motivating Question
• 5 Choosing the Approach
• 6 Mapping for Safety, Operation, and Results
• 7 Refreshing Statistics
• 8 Exploring Statistical Design of Experiments
• 9 Selecting the Data Points
• 10 Analyzing Measurement Uncertainty
• 11 Using Uncertainty Analysis in Planning and Execution
• 12 Debugging an Experiment, Shakedown, and Validation
• 13 Trimming Uncertainty
• 14 Documenting the Experiment
• Appendix A: Appendix ADistributing Variation and Pooled Variance
• Appendix B: Appendix BIllustrative Tables for Statistical Design
• Appendix C: Appendix CHand Analysis of Two‐Level Factorial Designs
• Appendix D: Appendix DFree Recommended Software: Obtain Recommended Free, Open‐Source Software for Your Computer
• Index
• End User License Agreement