Applied Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design

Autumn semester 2018

General information

Lecturer Lukas Meier
Assistants Francesco Ortelli, Marco Eigenmann
Lectures Mon 13-15 HG G 5 >>
Exercises Mon 15-17 (biweekly) HG E 1.1
Course catalogue data >>
Exam Note: New format will be completely multiple choice with no negative points.

Previous exams (with different style)
Question hour See here

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 13th, 2018:
    Beginning of lecture: Monday, 24/09/2018. (Exercises start on 24/09/2018 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 24/09/2018. 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.

1.11.2018 Notice: Solutions 1 and Solutions 2 have been modified with minor changes.
Exercises Hand out Hand in Discussion Solution Slides/Notes
Series 6 December 10, 2018 No hand in December 17, 2018 Solutions 6
Series 5 November 26, 2018 December 6, 2018 December 3, 2018 Solutions 5
Series 4 November 12, 2018 November 22, 2018 November 19, 2018 Solutions 4
Series 3 October 26, 2018 November 8, 2018 November 5, 2018 Solutions 3
Series 2 October 12, 2018 October 25, 2018 October 22, 2018 Solutions 2 Remarks 2 (.R)
Series 1 September 27, 2018 October 11, 2018 October 8, 2018 Solutions 1
R Intro Democode
EasyData (easy.txt) 		- - September 24, 2018 - R Intro Slides

Introduction