Design of Experiments for Biomedical Engineers

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Topics covered include: observational versus experimental studies, fundamentals of good design, including randomization, replication, blocking, and blinding; one-factor designs: completely randomized, randomized complete block, and Latin-Square designs; fixed and random effects; analysis of residuals; two-factor and factorial designs; repeated measures designs; two-level factorial and fractional factorial designs. Lectures and assignments incorporate real-world examples and critiques of studies in the literature.