Tentative Syllabus for STA5205: Experimental Design 
Spring, 2003
Professor:  Dr. Lorrie Hoffman
Office: CCII-208  Hours: MW 2:00 - 2:50 pm ; F noon- 3:00 
pm (and by appt)
Phone: 407-823-5525 (office) 407-207-2643 (home, after
8am before 10pm) Fax: 407-823-3930 or 407-207-2643  
Email: hoffman@mail.ucf.edu                                        
WEBpage: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~hoffman 
Text:  Design and Analysis of Experiments, Dean and Voss,
1999
Supplementary Resources: Find these clickables at website
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~hoffman via “Info on Courses” and
“Design of Exp..”                 
http://www.wright.edu/~dan.voss/bookdata/data.html; 
http://www.wright.edu/~dan.voss/book/sas/programs/chs03t0
9.html     Note: these sites contain the datasets and SAS
programs used in the Dean and Voss textbook.  Note: this site
is a power and sample size calculator:
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/Power/index.html    By
following the links on my webpage you find a set of lecture
notes - the viewgraphs.
Attendance: not required, but I suspect there is a strong
positive correlation between number of days present and high
grades.  DO NOT MISS AN EXAM (except under
uncontrollable circumstances and then contact me prior to
exam time).  Meet MW 5:30 - 6:45pm in CL-105.   Note:
There are copies of last year’s course lectures on video
available in the library at the 3rd floor AV desk but priority
for viewing will be given to the off-campus students
registered in the video section.  The overheads (viewgraphs)
on the first four or five tapes are not very viewable so it is
imperative that you download a copy of these off my webpage
prior to attempting to view those tapes. 
Special Instructions for Video Viewers: Those taking this via
videotape should contact me about arranging to take the
midterm and final if you can not make it during normal class
hours.  You should try to present the results of your
experiment to the live class during the finals week session.  If
you can not do this then please arrange to get me a videotape
of yourself explaining your experiment and the results.  There
are no videotapes of the computer laboratory sessions so if
you have trouble understanding SAS by merely reading the
Dean and Voss textbook then please contact me.
Computer Software: We will be doing analysis of the data
with the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) version 8.1, 
available to us in two ways: 1) at the Olympus terminals in
CC2 on the first floor, 2) on a  CDrom which I supply to you
and you may install on your home system.
Homework: The problems below are found in the Dean and
Voss book.  For each  problem involving data please do the
following (in addition to the instructions in the text): if
feasible, do calculations by hand and then also run the data
analysis via SAS, select typical multiple comparisons and
execute all appropriate solution approaches that I have
discussed in class, also check assumptions and illustrate data
of interest by plotting these.  Note that data and programs can
be viewed and downloaded from the websites referenced
above.  Late assignments are not accepted; but partially
finished ones are. Collaboration with fellow students is
encouraged on homework.
Testing and Assignments: There will be an in-class midterm
and an in-class final each worth 25% of your grade.   Exams
are open-book,  open note.  Additionally, on exam days I
expect you to bring all of your homework (those problems
assigned below) to class.  At that time I will ask for one or
two of the problems which account for an additional 30% of
your grade: 15% at midterm time and 15% at final time.  The
write-up of your proposed experiment will count for 10% and
the presentation of your results in a talk to the class during
finals week will be another 10%.  One optional extra class
session will be held to “use each other as experimental units”
to facilitate data acquisition, i.e. to conduct your experiment. 
Collaboration on the in-class examinations is not permitted. 
Cheating warrants an F for the course.
Grading: A=92 to 100; A-=90 to 91.9 B+=88 to 89.9 B=82 to
87.9 B-=80 to 81.9 C+=78 to 79.9 C=72 to 77.9 C-=70 to
71.9 D+=68 to 69.9 D=62 to 67.9 D-=60 to 61.9 F=below 60;
I reserve the right to curve down.
DATE	CLASS COVERS 		ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS	
1/6	ch.s 1&2		Think of data that you
could collect from the class and go through the checklist on
page 8 of Dean and Voss explaining how each item relates to
your experiment		
1/8	3.1-3.5			CH.3  4, 14
1/13	3.6-3.7, 4.1-4.3		CH.3  17; CH.4   3
1/15	4.4-4.5			CH.4  11
1/20	MLK b-day Holiday--NO CLASS
1/22	lab - 3.8, 4.6
1/27	5.1-5.4			CH.5  1
1/29 	5.5-5.7
2/3	6.1-6.3			CH.6  2, 7
2/5	6.5			CH.6  8bd (omit line 3 of
data, do 2-way additive with linear trend on time)
2/10	lab 5.8, 6.8
2/12	review & HW
2/17	midterm ch1-6
2/19	6.6
2/24	6.7(omit 6.7.3)		CH.6 8 (as is)
2/26	7.1-7.4
2/28 Drop date
3/3	7.5-7.6(omit 7.5.3,7.6.2,7.7.4)  CH.7  5 do as  3x2x3
(ignore D factor), treat as raw data; show ANOVA h)do trend
like figure 7.7
3/5	lab 7.7
3/10	10.1-10.6		proposal due
3/12	10.7-10.8		CH.10  6
3/17-21  Spring Break
3/24	11.1-11.4
3/26	13.1-13.3		CH.11  11
3/31    lab 10.9
4/2	13.4-13.10		CH.13  2
4/7	15.1-15.2		CH.13  8(omit b)
4/9 	lab 13.11
4/14    13.4-13.10		CH.13  2
4/16	review & HW		CH 15  1
4/21	final ch 7,10,11,13
4/2?	4 - 7 p.m. Oral presentation of experiment results