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Design of Experiments
STAT 140

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Description

Statistical designs for efficient experimentation in the physical, life, social and management sciences and in engineering. A systematic approach to explore input-output relationships by deliberately manipulating input variables. Topics include completely randomized and randomized block designs, inferential adjustments for mulltiplicity of estimands, balanced incomplete block designs, factorial designs, confounding in blocks, fractional replications, and re-randomization. Each topic motivated by real-life examples.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Department Statistics
Course Component Lecture
Subject Statistics
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
Exam/Final Deadline May 13, 2026
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Science & Engineering & Applied Science
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students