At 10:49 AM 1/18/01 -0600, Ken K. wrote:
>I find BH&H to be quite good, but a little hard to read and getting a little
>dated. I much prefer "Design and Analysis of Experiments" by Douglas C.
>Montgomery, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-52000-4
>
>I really like the simple style Montogomery uses in all his books
not disagreeing with the above but, one of the big problems in selecting a
book on experimental design is ... that appropriate designs DEPEND upon the
problem(s) being investigated ...
in addition, i have sensed that most "design" books are not really about
designing experiments but, how to analyze data FROM particular designs ...
and there IS a large difference
while it may not be too difficult to talk about 1 and 2 and 3 or more
factor designs ... with blocking variables or not ... with repeated
measures or not (etc.) ... whether any of these are appropriate again
depends on the question(s) being asked
=================================================================
Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about
the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at
http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/
=================================================================
