Accession Number:

AD0697851

Title:

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF RESPONSE SURFACES (PROJECT SURF).

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

CORNELL AERONAUTICAL LAB INC BUFFALO N Y

Personal Author(s):

• McAdams,H. T.

Report Date:

1969-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

176.0

Abstract:

Experiment design is considered in a framework which integrates mathematical and statistical techniques with the disciplinary background of the problem under study. Considered as a mapping from treatment space to response space, experimentation is viewed as a problem in mathematical extension of a function as well as a problem in statistical estimation. It is shown that existing experiment designs, born in the classical framework of polynomial approximation to a function, are not necessarily optimum when the experiment is viewed in the context of a general function space. A philosophy for broadening the scope of experiment design from this point of view is outlined and some techniques for its implementation are presented. Author

Descriptors:

• (*COMBINATORIAL ANALYSIS
• EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN)
• (*REGRESSION ANALYSIS
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS)
• VECTOR SPACES
• STATISTICAL TESTS
• FACTOR ANALYSIS
• CURVE FITTING
• APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS)
• DECISION THEORY
• POLYNOMIALS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE