Course Information and Policies
Statistics 514, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Fall 2005
Time and Location
STAT514 TTh 3:00-4:15PM UNIV 017
Instructor: Michael Y. Zhu
Office: 510 Mathematical Sciences Building (MATH)
Office Hours: Monday 3-4:30pm and Wednesday 1-2:30pm (Short questions by email are also welcome.)
Appointments: If you cannot use the scheduled office hours, you may arrange an
appointment for another time by email or by phone.
Phone: (765)494-6038
Email: yuzhu@stat.purdue.edu
Mailbox: in Room 533 MATH, open 8:00am-5:00pm Monday-Friday only.
Grader and TA
Mahua DasGupta
Office : MATH G160
Phone : 765-496-2763
E-mail : mdasgupt@stat.purdue.edu
Office Hour: 6-8pm Tuesday, MATH G160
Prerequisite
A good introductory course in statistics covering probability distributions,
sampling distributions, sample mean, variance, hypothesis testing,
Z-test, t-test, two sample paired t-test, two sample independent t-test,
one-way ANOVA and simple regression.
Textbook
Design and Analysis of Experiments by Montgomery (5th Edition or 6th
Edition, Wiley)
References:
"Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Parameter Design
Optimization" by Wu and Hamada (Wiley);
"Statistics for Experimenters" by
Box, Hunter and Hunter (1st or 2nd edition, Wiley).
Course Outline
Overview and Basic Principles
Simple Designs and Analysis of Variance
Block Designs, Latin Squares and Related Designs
Full and Fractional Factorial Designs
Experiments with Random Factors
Nested and Split-Plot Designs
Response Surface Methods
Homework and Exams
There are about 10 homework assignments, two midterms and one final.
The midterms are tentatively scheduled to
be in the weeks of October 3 and
November 14. The final exam will be held in the week of December 12.
Homework assignments will be posted on the web one week before their
due days which are usually Thursdays. Students can hand in
homework either in class or put it in my mailbox by 5:00pm on due day;
Late homework will not be accepted unless you have a
conflict or an emergent situation. Homework solutions will be posted on the
web. Group discussions and study sessions are encouraged but upright copying
is unacceptable. Please do not pad your homework with endless SAS printouts.
Please only include printouts directly relevant to your answers.
Students having exam conflicts or requesting special accommodation (documented)
must inform the instructor as early as possible so that alternative plans
may be arranged.
Final Grade
Homework 20%; Midterm I 20%; Midterm II 20%; Final 40%
Your final grade will be determined by taking your received percentage
to the following scale: [90, 100]=A, [80, 90)=B,
[70, 80)=C, [60, 70)=D, below 60=F.
Stat514 Website
The URL of the website is
http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~yuzhu/stat514fall05gate.html. It contains links to
all the course material, which are
Course Information, SAS Information, Lecture Notes, Homework and Exam Material, Data Sets, SAS Templates and Announcements. Some links are briefly
described below.
- Lecture Notes usually are .pdf files. They
will be posted at least two days before lecture.
- Homework and Exam Material contains homework
assignments, exam material and solutions.
- SAS Templates contains important .sas programs which are used in
class and can serve as templates for homework.
- Data Sets contains .dat files which are data sets in
plain text format.
To download a .sas program or a .dat file, just click the file name,
then click Save this file to disk and navigate to the directory
where you keep your SAS work. When you use a ITaP computer, make sure
to use either your home directory
(H: drive) or a floppy disk (A: drive), otherwise your work will be
deleted after you log off.