Applied Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design

Autumn semester 2017

General information

Lecturer Lukas Meier
Assistants Solt Kovács, Claude Renaux
Lectures Mon 13-15 HG G 5 >>
Exercises Mon 15-17 (biweekly) HG E 1.1
Course catalogue data >>
Exam Winter 2016 (Solutions)
Old Demo Exam
Question hour January 29th, 2018 and February 2nd, 2018
14:00 - 15:00
HG G 19.1

Course content

Principles of experimental design. One-way analysis of variance. Multi-factor experiments and analysis of variance. Block designs. Latin square designs. Split-plot and strip-plot designs. Random effects and mixed effects models. Full factorials and fractional designs.

Announcements

  • September 1st, 2017:
    Beginning of lecture: Monday, 25/09/2017. (Exercises start on 25/09/2017 at 15:15 in room HG E 1.1, with a special introduction to the "R" software)

Course materials

Lecture notes

Lecture notes can be found here (HTML and PDF)

Course organisation

Week Topic Book chapters
Week 13 Final Remarks
Week 12 Power
  • 7.1
  • 7.3
Week 11 Incomplete Block Designs
  • 14.1 - 14.2
Week 10 Split-Plot Designs
  • 16.1 - 16.4
Week 9 Nested and Mixed Effects: II
  • 12.1-12.5
Week 8 Nested and Mixed Effects: I
  • 12.1-12.5
Week 7 Random Effects
  • 11.1-11.3
  • 11.5
Week 6 Complete Block Designs
  • 13.1-13.2
  • 13.3.1-13.3.3
  • 13.4
Week 5 Factorial Treatment Structure II
  • 9.1
  • 9.2.1 - 9.2.2
  • 9.2.4
  • 10.1
Week 4 Factorial Treatment Structure I
  • 8
Week 3 Specific Differences (Contrasts)
  • 4.1 - 4.3
  • 5.1 - 5.4
Week 2 Completely Randomized Designs
  • 3.1 - 3.8
  • (6)
Week 1 Introduction / General Concepts
  • 1
  • 2.1 - 2.3

Exercise classes

Exercise classes are every two weeks starting on 25/09/2017. The first exercise class will feature an R tutorial. Please install R and RStudio and bring your laptop to the exercise classes, if possible.

Series and solutions

The Series solutions should be handed in by 12:00 (noon) of the designated date. You can submit your solutions by placing them in the ANOVA box in room HG J 68.

Exercises Hand out Hand in Discussion Solution Slides/Notes
Series 6 December 11, 2017 No hand in December 18, 2017 Solutions 6
Series 5 November 27, 2017 December 7, 2017 December 4, 2017 Solutions 5
Series 4 November 13, 2017 November 23, 2017 November 20, 2017 Solutions 4
Series 3 October 30, 2017 November 9, 2017 November 6, 2017 Solutions 3
Series 2 October 16, 2017 October 26, 2017 October 23, 2017 Solutions 2
Series 1 October 2, 2017 October 12, 2017 October 9, 2017 Solutions 1
R Intro Democode - - September 25, 2017 - R Intro Slides
Introduction