Prerequisites: STAT 170A, STAT 170B, STAT 171, or equivalents; STAT 200A
Description: Topics include factorial experiments; confounding and fractional factorial experiments for symmetrical and asymmetrical factori- al experiments; orthogonal and balanced arrays; opti- mal fractional factorial designs; first and second order response surface designs; rotatibility; and blocking of response surface designs; method of steepest ascent; canonical representation; and minimum bias, vari- ance, and mean square error designs.