Experimental Design and Sampling

Catalog description

3 Lecture Hour(s) 0 Lab Hour(s) This course introduces students to concepts and techniques of experimental design and survey sampling. The experimental design part will cover the concepts of experimental units, randomization, treatments, and blocking, and various standard experimental designs such as A-B testing, completely randomized designs, randomized complete block designs, and factorial and fractional factorial designs. Survey sampling topics will include simple random sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, two- and multi-stage sampling, sampling weights, and survey errors. Students will learn to implement these techniques and analyze data from designed experiments and sample surveys using the statistical software R.