Experiments can cost a great deal in time or money or both! There is a well-established science that explains how to design the fewest experiments to learn the most from them. This same science helps with the analyses of the results as well.
This booklet presents the key elements of this science. Given the specifics of the application domain and the questions the experimenter wants answered, this booklet explains which experiments should be done and why. It then explains how to analyze their results. This science is necessarily quantitative in nature and this booklet follows this style. The booklet does strive to explain the concepts as intuitively as possible, nonetheless.
The intended audience is people wanting a basic introduction to the topic, one that covers a lot of ground but does not go into excessive formal detail. The reader completely new to this topic will have learnt a lot about this topic by the time (s)he has finished reading this short booklet.
This booklet presents the key elements of this science. Given the specifics of the application domain and the questions the experimenter wants answered, this booklet explains which experiments should be done and why. It then explains how to analyze their results. This science is necessarily quantitative in nature and this booklet follows this style. The booklet does strive to explain the concepts as intuitively as possible, nonetheless.
The intended audience is people wanting a basic introduction to the topic, one that covers a lot of ground but does not go into excessive formal detail. The reader completely new to this topic will have learnt a lot about this topic by the time (s)he has finished reading this short booklet.
