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A two-stage experimental design procedure under dispersion effects

Abstract

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Under heterogeneous variance, conventional optimal response surface experimental designs for estimating location models are no longer optimal. To address this deficiency. D and Q criteria appropriate under heterogeneous variance are developed. These criteria are then applied to demonstrate the improved efficiency of a proposed two-stage experimental design procedure. In the proposed procedure the first stage estimates the heterogeneous variance structure and the second stage augments the first stage to produce a total design that is Q or D-optimal for the estimated variance structure. The Q and 0 criteria not only direct the total design, but also suggest optimal designs for estimating dispersion effects in the first stage. The efficiency of the proposed two-stage procedure is further enhanced if certain mild assumptions concerning variance structure are valid. These assumptions are formulated as a prior distribution and effectively stabilize the variance estimation in the first stage through a Bayes estimator.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Statistics
Department dc:contributor.department
Statistics
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1992

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Baran, Gary Steven
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Myers, Raymond H.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Foutz, Robert
  • Smith, Eric P.
  • Reynolds, Marion R. Jr.
  • Terrell, George R.

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-02012006-141729
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/37246

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Baran, Gary Steven. A two-stage experimental design procedure under dispersion effects. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37246