Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses / Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics (PDF)

The authority on building empirical models and the fitting of such
surfaces to data--completely updated and revised

Revising and updating a volume that represents the essential
source on building empirical models, George Box and Norman
Draper--renowned authorities in this field--continue to
set the standard with the Second Edition of Response Surfaces,
Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses, providing timely new techniques, new
exercises, and expanded material.

A comprehensive introduction to building empirical models, this
book presents the general philosophy and computational details of a
number of important topics, including factorial designs at two
levels; fitting first and second-order models; adequacy of
estimation and the use of transformation; and occurrence and
elucidation of ridge systems.

Substantially rewritten, the Second Edition reflects the
emergence of ridge analysis of second-order response surfaces as a
very practical tool that can be easily applied in a variety of
circumstances. This unique, fully developed coverage of ridge
analysis--a technique for exploring quadratic response
surfaces including surfaces in the space of mixture ingredients
and/or subject to linear restrictions--includes MINITAB®
routines for performing the calculations for any number of
dimensions.

Many additional figures are included in the new edition, and new
exercises (many based on data from published papers) offer insight
into the methods used. The exercises and their solutions provide a
variety of supplementary examples of response surface use, forming
an extremely important component of the text.

Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses, Second Edition
presents material in a logical and understandable arrangement and
includes six new chapters covering an up-to-date presentation of
standard ridge analysis (without restrictions); design and analysis
of mixtures experiments; ridge analysis methods when there are
linear restrictions in the experimental space including the
mixtures experiments case, with or without further linear
restrictions; and canonical reduction of second-order response
surfaces in the foregoing general case.

Additional features in the new edition include:

* New exercises with worked answers added throughout

* An extensive revision of Chapter 5: Blocking and Fractionating
2k Designs

* Additional discussion on the projection of two-level designs
into lower dimensional spaces

This is an ideal reference for researchers as well as a primary
text for Response Surface Methodology graduate-level courses and a
supplementary text for Design of Experiments courses at the
upper-undergraduate and beginning-graduate levels.