Planning and Executing Credible Experiments

<p><b>Covers experiment planning, execution, analysis, and reporting</b></p> <p>This single-source resource guides readers in planning and conducting credible experiments for engineering, science, industrial processes, agriculture, and business. The text takes experimenters all the way through conducting a high-impact experiment, from initial conception, through execution of the experiment, to a defensible final report. It prepares the reader to anticipate the choices faced during each stage. </p> <p>Filled with real-world examples from engineering science and industry, <i>Planning and Executing Credible Experiments: A Guidebook for Engineering, Science, Industrial Processes, Agriculture, and Business</i> offers chapters that challenge experimenters at each stage of planning and execution and emphasizes uncertainty analysis as a design tool in addition to its role for reporting results. Tested over decades at Stanford University and internationally, the text employs two powerful, free, open-source software tools that optimize experiment design and streamline analysis. A website accompanies the text, providing additional resources and software downloads.</p> <ul> <li>A comprehensive guide to experiment planning, execution, and analysis</li> <li>Leads from initial conception, through the experiment’s launch, to final report</li> <li>Prepares the reader to anticipate the choices faced throughout an experiment</li> <li>Hones the motivating question</li> <li>Employs principles and techniques from Design of Experiments (DoE)</li> <li>Selects experiment designs to obtain the most information from fewer experimental runs</li> <li>Offers chapters that propose questions that an experimenter will need to ask and answer during each stage of planning and execution</li> <li>Demonstrates how uncertainty analysis guides and strengthens each stage</li> <li>Includes examples from real-life industrial experiments</li> <li>Accompanied by a website hosting open-source software</li> </ul> <p><i>Planning and Executing Credible Experiments</i> is an excellent resource for graduates and senior undergraduates—as well as professionals—across a wide variety of engineering disciplines. </p>