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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN A historical perspective Luc Duchateau Ghent University. Experimentation is as old as mankind. Out of Africa Fertile Crescent. First account of “ designed ” experiment. James Lind (1747) Assign treatments in a random way to seamen with scurvey.
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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNA historicalperspectiveLuc DuchateauGhent University
Experimentation is as old as mankind • Out of Africa • FertileCrescent
First account of “designed” experiment • James Lind (1747) • Assigntreatments in a random way toseamenwithscurvey
Timeline Ethiopia: 1747 • End of golden age of GondarwithLyasu II
First account of randomisationbasedinferenceandoptimal design • Charles Sanders Peirce (1876) • Semiotics
First account of blindedrepeatedmeasures design • Charles Sanders Peirce (1885) • Toassesswhetherthereexists a leastperceptibledifference of excitations • “On small differences in sensation” Memoirs of the NAS 3, 73-83. Subject question: Is W2 smaller or larger than W1? W1 W1 W2
Timeline Ethiopia: 1896 • Battle of Adwa: Menelik II
First account of a collection of experimental designs • Sir Ronald Fischer • Arrangement of field experiments (1926) • Design of experiments (1935) • The geneticaltheory of naturalselection (1930) • Introduction of termssuch as • Blocking • Replication • Orthogonality • Factorial experiments
Timeline Ethiopia: 1931 • EthiopianconstitutionstartedbyEmperorHaileSelassie
First account of fractionalfactoralexperiments in industry • Plackett-Burman designs (1946)
Broaddivision of experimental design • Encyclopedic • Randomised complete block • Latin square • Split plot • Fractional factorial • …. • Optimal • D-optimality • A-optimality …
The future? • Designingsimulationexperiments