design and Analysis of Experiments (stat 337), Academic Year 1447 AH, Second Semester

King Saud University

College of Sciences 

Department of Statistics and Operations Research

 

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1- information about the course

 Course Title:   Experimental Design                                       Course Code: STAT 337   

Credit hours: 3(2+1+0)                                                                 Course type: Department Required

Pre-requirements for this course: Stat 328                   Level this course is offered: (6th/3rd)

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 2- Course Description 

The course contains a various topics and techniques of Data Analysis using statistical software.

• Introduction: Some typical applications of experimental design, basic principles, guidelines for designing experiments, and using statistical techniques in experimentation.
• Statistical inference: about the differences in means, randomized designs, and about the variances of normal distributions.
• Experiments with a Single Factor (Completely Randomized Design CRD): (The Analysis of Variance):
• Fixed and random effect model with balance and unbalance data.
• Contrasts and Multicomparisons among treatment means (Tukey, LSD Fisher,  Dunnett , Scheffe, Bonferroni).
• determining Sample Size.
• Randomized Blocks, Latin Squares.
• The Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD).
• The Latin Square Design.
• Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBD)
• Introduction to Factorial Designs.
• The Two-Factor Factorial Design
• The General Factorial Design.
• The 2k Factorial Design
• The 22 Factorial Design
• The 23 Factorial Design

• Regression and Analysis of Covariance

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3-Course Main Objective(s)

Students after completing the course will have:

• Ability to use and integrate statistical techniques in any scientific inquiry.
• Providing the student with the skill in choosing the appropriate design to carry out the experiment.
• Understanding how to select the best methods to analysis data by using statistical packages.
• Ability to give right interpretations of statistical results.
• The skills to prepare and write statistical reports.