STAT 51400 (CRN 29258) Design of Experiments

Fall 2009 Tu Thur 3-4:15 Potter Engineering Center 262 Instructor: Hao Zhang, MATH 536, 496-9548, zhanghao@purdue.edu. Course Homepage: http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~zhanghao/STAT514.html, where you can obtain lecture notes and homework assignments and solutions, and other course materials. Office Hours: 1-2pm Monday, Friday and by appointment. Text: Design and Analysis of Experiments, Angela Dean and Daniel Voss, Springer 1999. Note: You can download all data and SAS programs used in the book from the following website http://www.wright.edu/~dvoss/book/DeanVoss.html . Prerequisite: STAT 512 or equivalent. Course Objectives: Introduce you to the principles of experimental design and appropriate analysis for experimental design data. By the end of the course, you will be able to design experiments in your field of study, analyze data from designed experiments using computer programs and draw meaningful conclusions. Tentative coverage of designs includes completely randomized designs, complete block designs, incomplete block designs, row-column (Latin square and Youden) designs, nested designs, split-plot designs, repeated measures design, confounded factorial designs and crossover designs. For each design, appropriate statistical models, estimates and sample size issues will be discussed, and SAS programs illustrated. Grading: Homework* Mid-term exam (date TBD) Project Final exam 40% 20% 15% 25%

* Homework problems are assigned regularly in class. They may be problems in the book, conceptual problems, and may ask you to review journal articles in your field for appropriate statistical content, to design research studies to illustrate specific types of statistical designs. Note: The instructor reserves the right to make any changes he deems academically suitable.