Applied Optimal Designs

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List of Contributors.Editors' Foreword.1 Optimal Design in Educational Testing (Steven Buyske).1.1 Introduction.1.2 Test Design .1.3 Sampling Design.1.4 Future Directions.2 Optimal On-line Calibration of Testlets (Douglas H. Jones and Mikhail S. Nediak).2.1 Introduction.2.2 Background.2.3 Solution for Optimal Designs.2.4 Simulation Results.2.5 Discussion.3 On the Empirical Relevance of Optimal Designs for the Measurement of Preferences (Heiko Grosmann, Heinz Holling, Michaela Brocke, Ulrike Grashoff and Rainer Schwabe).3.1 Introduction.3.2 Conjoint Analysis.3.3 Paired Comparison Models in Conjoint Analysis.3.4 Design Issues.3.5 Experiments.3.6 Discussion.4 Designing Optimal Two-stage Epidemiological Studies (Marie Reilly and Agus Salim).4.1 Introduction.4.2 Illustrative Examples.4.3 Meanscore.4.4 Optimal Design and Meanscore.4.5 Deriving Optimal Designs in Practice.4.6 Summary.4.7 Appendix 1 Brief Description of Software Used.4.8 Appendix 2 The Optimal Sampling Package.4.9 Appendix 3 Using the Optimal Package in R.4.10 Appendix 4 Using the Optimal Package in S-Plus.4.11 Appendix 5 Using the Optimal Package in STATA.5 Response-Driven Designs in Drug Development (Valerii V. Fedorov and Sergei L. Leonov).5.1 Introduction.5.2 Motivating Example: Quantal Models for Dose Response.5.3 Continuous Models.5.4 Variance Depending on Unknown Parameters and Multi-response Models.5.5 Optimal Designs with Cost Constraints5.6 Adaptive Designs5.7 Discussion6 Design of Experiments for Microbiological Models (Holger Dette, Viatcheslav B. Melas and Nikolay Strigul).6.1 Introduction.6.2 Experimental Design for Nonlinear Models.6.3 Applications of Optimal Experimental Design in Microbiology.6.4 Bayesian Methods for Regression Models.6.5 Conclusions.7 Selected Issues in the Design of Studies of Interrater Agreement (Allan Donner and Mekibib Altaye).7.1 Introduction.7.2 The Choice between a Continuous or Dichotomous Variable.7.3 The Choice between a Polychotomous or Dichotomous Outcome Variable.7.4 Incorporation of Cost Considerations.7.5 Final Comments.8 Restricted Optimal Design in the Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow Using the Kety-Schmidt Technique (J.N.S. Matthews and P.W. James).8.1 Introduction.8.2 The Kety-Schmidt Method.8.3 The Statistical Model and Optimality Criteria.8.4 Locally Optimal Designs.8.5 Bayesian Designs and Prior Distributions.8.6 Optimal Bayesian Designs.8.7 Practical Designs.8.8 Concluding Remarks.9 Optimal Experimental Design for Parameter Estimation and Contaminant Plume Characterization in Groundwater Modelling (James McPhee and William W-G. Yeh).9.1 Introduction.9.2 Groundwater Flow and Mass Transport in Porous Media: Modelling Issues.9.3 Problem Formulation.9.4 Solution Algorithms.9.5 Case Studies.9.6 Summary and Conclusions.10 The Optimal Design of Blocked Experiments in Industry (Peter Goos, Lieven Tack and Martina Vandebroek).10.1 Introduction.10.2 The Pastry Dough Mixing Experiment.10.3 The Problem.10.4 Fixed Block Effects Model.10.5 Random Block Effects Model.10.6 The Pastry Dough Mixing Experiment Revisited.10.7 Time Trends and Cost Considerations.10.8 Optimal Run Orders for Blocked Experiments.10.9 A Time Trend in the Pastry Dough Mixing Experiment.10.10 Summary.Index.

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