Spring School 2019

Spring School 2019 TENTATIVE !!!!

The third edition of the Spring School on Design of Experiments will take place in Leuven from ?? till ?? April 2019. It will involve two courses:

April ??-??: Design and Analysis of Screening Experiments and Response Surface Experiments (by Peter Goos)

April ??: Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments (by Bradley Jones)

Peter Goos and Bradley Jones will use the JMP software throughout the Spring School. JMP is state-of-the-art for practical design of experiments and is very user-friendly. All sessions will be hands-on and take place in a PC lab of the university.

TENTATIVE University of Leuven - Dekenstraat 2, 3000 Leuven (Room VHI 01.22)

The lecture room is right in the town center. The best thing to do is to seek accommodation in the town center: everything within the town center or near the train station is at most 1 km from the lecture room. The youth hostel is also within walking distance. Hotels near the train station are cheaper than those in the town center, and still within walking distance of the lecture room. Registrants can find information about places to stay on the website of the town of Leuven.

Travel information

Leuven is easy to reach by train from the Brussels train stations (roughly 20-30 minutes), from Liège (30 minutes) and from the Brussels national airport (15 minutes by train). Note that the Brussels South airport is further.

Pricing

One Course

200 € – PhD students
250 € – other academics and attendees from non-profit organisations
750 € – other

Both Courses

300 € – PhD students
375 € – other academics and attendees from non-profit organisations
1000 € – other

Notice
Researchers of the KU Leuven can participate in the Spring School for FREE

Registration

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PART 1: The Theory and Practice of Designing Experiments

April 3, 4 and 5, 2017

The main objective of this course is to enable participants to better identify appropriate methodologies for designing experiments and analysing the data which arise from them. It covers the statistical theory of planning experiments and analysing the resulting data, with the emphasis on the statistical principles and how they relate to applications in ways that allow us to obtain valid and informative data. Less emphasis is placed on detailed descriptions of ways of constructing designs and the mathematical and computational methodologies behind them, although these will frequently be referred to in passing. In total, the course takes 2.5 days.

TOPICS

Basic principles

Randomization

Restricted randomization

Treatments: structures, contrasts and models

Optimal choice of treatments

The factorial treatment structure

Blocking

Complex block structures

Multi-stratum designs

Special topics

BOOKLIST

This course does not follow any book very closely. Those most similar in style are:

Cox, D. R. and Reid, N. (2000) The Theory of the Design of Experiments. London: Chapman & Hall.
Mead, R., Gilmour, S. G. and Mead, A. (2012) Statistical Principles for the Design of Experiments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Steven Gilmour

Extensive research experience in the theory, methodology and application of the design of experiments and the analysis of the resulting data, with an emphasis on experiments with complex treatment structures. He has wide experience teaching statistics to people from diverse backgrounds in both universities and industry. He has also acted as a consultant on designing experiments in diverse application areas in both universities and industry.

PART 2: Optimal design of experiments

April 5, 6 and 7, 2017

The target audience for the course is starting Ph.D. students and anyone else who would like a primer on optimal design of experiments. Prerequisites for the course are knowledge of basic statistics and regression analysis. Familiarity with classical design of experiments is not required. The course is not highly mathematical and therefore accessible to a broad audience.

The course will start with an intuitive introduction of the topic and gradually builds up to more complicated situations. Examples for the course will be taken from industry, marketing, chemistry, medicine, … to show the wide applicability of the optimal design techniques. The attention will not be restricted to optimal design for linear regression models, but Bayesian optimal design and minimax designs for nonlinear regression models will also be discussed. The strengths and weaknesses of optimal design will be illustrated, and some remedies to overcome some of the problems will be given. A unique feature of the course is that it discusses and illustrates the working of algorithms for constructing optimal experimental designs.

The course will take place in a computer class so that the course participants can work on a few algorithms and examples themselves. Various software packages are demonstrated as well.

In total, the course takes 2.5 days.

For further information, please contact Peter Goos. (info@experimental-design.eu)

COURSE CONTENT

Introduction to design of experiments

Intuitive introduction to optimal design of experiments

Optimal design for linear regression models (first-order models, second-order models, constrained design regions, algorithms)

Optimal design for nonlinear regression models (local optimal design, Bayesian optimal design, minimax design, algorithms)

Extensions to non-standard design problems (blocked experiments, paired comparison and choice experiments, experiments with hard-to-change factors (split-plot experiments), model uncertainty)

The last half day is reserved for advanced topics like split-split-plot designs, strip-plot designs, and computationally efficient methods for Bayesian optimal design.

Peter Goos

A full professor at the Faculty of Bio-Science Engineering of the University of Leuven and at the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp, where he teaches various introductory and advanced courses on statistics and probability. His main research area is the statistical design and analysis of experiments.