Fields

Physical sciences

Experiments here usually have about 7 factors and 16 runs. Most are fractional factorials. The catalog holds only a few from this field so far.

Plan one like these

  • Full factorial
  • Fractional factorial or screening
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The experiments of each kind, with their median size
Kind of designExperiments FactorsRuns
Full factorial148
Fractional factorial or screening2716

Factors and runs are the medians of each kind.

Full factorial

Every combination of the factor levels.

Fractional factorial or screening

A planned part of the combinations, to find the factors that matter.