EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN I

PLANTSCI 771

Review of methods for controlling error in research experiments; review and in-depth development of factorial treatment designs; theory, analysis, and examples of advanced experimental designs for plant and animal research.

MATH 443

Review of matrix algebra. Simultaneous linear equations, linear dependence and rank, vector space, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, quadratic forms, inner product spaces, norms, canonical forms. Discussion of numerical aspects and applications in the sciences.

MATH/STAT 709

An introduction to measure theoretic probability, random variables, and high-dimensional statistics; conditional expectation, sufficiency, and unbiased estimation; methods of large sample theory including laws of large numbers and central limit theorems.

ME/STAT 424

Introduction to statistical design and analysis of experiments. Topics include: principles of randomization, blocking and replication, randomized blocking designs, Latin square designs, full factorial and fractional factorial designs and response surface methodology. Substantial focus will be devoted to engineering applications.

ANSCI 865

Experimental design and proper data analysis are critical processes for scientific research. Planning and performing research studies have statistical implications that influence how results are interpreted. Learn the fundamentals of generalized linear models, experimental design, and data analysis using common examples from biological studies.