Designed experiments with missing or discordant values

From: Journal of Quality Technology | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

THOSE who have carried out designed experiments have occasionally encountered a missing value or a value that was clearly discordant. How does one carry out a proper analysis in such a situation?

When a value is missing from a balanced experimental design, such as a factorial design, it is desirable to substitute some value for the missing one so that an analysis can proceed. It is possible to write a model for the unbalanced design and use a regression analysis, but this requires advanced knowledge of this subject. Otherwise, an appropriate value must be chosen to substitute for the missing ...

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