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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Newbie ?:Multivariate Testing
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In article <4k1bt3$ik9@majors2.cs.duke.edu>, jam@majors2.cs.duke.edu (James Pistorino) writes:
|> I was recently reading a business magazine that had some discussion of
|> multivariate testing (MVT).  This comes out of some work by
|> Plackett-Burdman and I have a copy of thie paper from the Journal of
|> Mathmetical Biology(?) from some time back.  My question is: is there
|> a more accessible (read intended for newbies) source of information on
|> this theory?

Plackett and Burman designs are a class of fractional factorial designs.
Such things are covered in numerous books on the statistical design of
experiments. Newbies need a good one-semester statistics course before
tackling design of experiments.

Plackett and Burman designs date back to 1946, fractional factorials
to the mid 1930s, and factorial designs to the 1920s. 

A similar question was posted recently to the sci.stat.* groups. I have
set follow-ups to sci.stat.consult, the appropriate place for
questions regarding applications of experimental design.


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