Designing Experiments
This workshop is offered by Emeritus Professor W. Federer from the Department of Biological and Computational Statistics. Dr. Federer is an expert in design of experiments and author of several books on the subject including co-author of "Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment" recently released.
The principles of designing experiments will be discussed. Reasons for adhering to these principles will be given. The various units related to conducting experiments will be presented. Methods for controlling extraneous variation in experimental material will be given. With this background, it is a simple procedure to obtain a randomized form for a variety of experiment designs using the software toolkit Gendex. An experimenter should not use valuable time to obtain a randomized form of a plan for an experiment in 21st century. Such a toolkit as Gendex allows an experimenter to obtain a variety of plans for consideration.