DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Question 1

Analysis of Variance/ANOVA

Answer 1

Statistical method for dividing the variation in observations among different sources.

Question 2

Balanced design

Answer 2

Set of combinations of factor values across multiple factors, that has the same number of runs for all combinations of levels of one or more factors.

Question 3

Blocking

Answer 3

Factor introduced to an experimental design that interacts with the effect of the factors to be studied. The effect of the factors is studied within the same level (block) of the blocking factor.

Question 4

Multi-armed bandit

Answer 4

Model that allows the tradeoff between exploration of unknown resources and exploitation of known resources to optimize output.

Question 5

Response surface

Answer 5

Sequential experimentation strategy to understand the relationship between response and input factors, and/or optimize the response.