Animal pain testing is essential for the development of new analgesic drugs, where appropriate data analyses as well as appropriate multi-factorial design of experiments are necessary to obtain meaningful results in an efficient fashion. The tail withdrawal experiment is one of the pain tests in which a rhesus monkey is restrained in a chair from which its tail hangs free by so it can be immers...

Drug discovery is dependent on finding a very small number of biologically active or potent compounds among millions of compounds stored in chemical collections. Quantitative structure-activity relationships suggest that potency of a compound is highly related to that compound's chemical makeup or structure. To improve the efficiency of cell-based analysis methods for high throughput screening,...

The quality of video transmitted by mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) can be influenced by several factors, including protocol layers; parameter settings of each protocol. In this paper, we are concerned with understanding the functional relationship between these influential factors and objective video quality in MANETs. We illustrate a systematic statistical design of experiments (DOE) strategy...

BACKGROUND The evaluation of more than one intervention in the same randomised controlled trial can be achieved using a parallel group design. However this requires increased sample size and can be inefficient, especially if there is also interest in considering combinations of the interventions. An alternative may be a factorial trial, where for two interventions participants are allocated to ...

This paper assesses and compares the performance of generalized linear models (GLM) with respect to log transformation and ANOVA approaches on the basis of coverage results and expected length of confidence intervals (CI) for the expected responses for exponentially distributed response variable. We also focus on the power functions of tests of hypothesis for testing significance of underlying ...