An investigator who plans to conduct an experiment with multiple independent variables must decide whether to use a complete or reduced factorial design. This article advocates a resource management perspective on making this decision, in which the investigator seeks a strategic balance between service to scientific objectives and economy. Considerations in making design decisions include wheth...

1. APPLICATION OF FULL FACTORIAL DESIGN IN THE MEASUREMENT OF DRYING RATES OF A ROTARY DRYER Drying is a physical separation process which enables to remove the liquid phase from a solid, semisolid or liquids by means of thermal energy. The aim of the experiment is to observe how various operational parameters affect the drying process in a rotary dryer. In drying process, heat is transferred b...

By means of a fractional factorial simulation experiment, we compare the performance of Penalised Quasi-Likelihood, Non-Adaptive Gaussian Quadrature and Adaptive Gaussian Quadrature in estimating parameters for multi-level logistic regression models. The comparison is done in terms of bias, mean squared error, numerical convergence, and computational efficiency. It turns out that, in terms of M...

a factorial experiment based on a randomized complete block design with three replications was carried out in order to study the effects of tuber size, nitrogen fertilizer and harvest date on yield and yield components of potato. this experiment was conducted in a grower’s farm in uraki village located in chabahar city, in 2011. in this experiment, the treatments were two levels of tuber size (...

In this paper, we describe the use of advanced statistical design in the screening experiment to configure parameters and operators of genetic algorithm (GA), which applied to find a shortest distance in a classical travelling salesman problem (TSP). Due to the number of GA parameters, operators and its levels considered in the experiment, the total numbers of program executions required by the...

Number of findings have shown that the used vegetable oils (UVOs) properties can be enhanced by changing their chemical structure and utilized as dielectric liquid in oil-immersed transformers. However, earlier researchers one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) method for experimental design approach. Nevertheless, they failed to consider possibility combining mixing process parameters at highest ratios c...

dissolved organic nitrogen (don) is an important constituent of dissolved organic matter (dom). it has a considerable effect on total dissolved soil nitrogen and it is very important as a nitrogen source of many aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. dissolved inorganic nitrogen, which is another form of total soil dissolved nitrogen, includes no3, no2 and nh4, which is very important for plant nu...