• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.741-757
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• 2000

In may experimental situations, whenever a block design is used, the block effect is usually considered to be fixed. There are, however, experimental situations in which it should be treated as random. The choice of a blocking arrangement for a response surface design can have a considerable effect on estimating the mean response and on the size of he prediction variance even if the experimental runs re the same. Therefore, care should be exercised in the selection of blocks. In this paper, in the presence of a random block effect, we propose a graphical method or evaluating the effect of blocking in response surface designs using cuboidal regions. This graphical method can be used to investigate how the blocking has influence on the prediction variance throughout all experimental regions of interest when this region is cuboidal, and compare the block effects in the cases of the orthogonal and non-orthogonal block designs, respectively.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.799-808
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• 2002

This paper aims at selecting the multi-response design with γ responses minimizing the bias error caused by fitting inadequate models to responses, where the first order models are fitted to Ρ responses fearing the quadratic bias, while to other γ- Ρ responses, the quadratic models are fitted fearing the cubic biases in the cuboidal region of interest. Under the assumption of symmetric design, by minimizing the criterion which represents the amount of error caused by fitting inadequate models, the optimum design was found to be the one having the design moments of second order and the fourth order as 1/3 and l/5, respectively. Examples of the design meeting the required conditions are given for illustration.