MCS 342 Exam 3
• When: Monday, May 9, 12:30-1:20
• What: An examination consisting of problems related to Chapter 12, Design of Experiments, Chapter 13, Analysis of Variance, and Chapter 14, Analysis of Categorical Data
• Where: Our classroom, Olin 319
• How: Closed-book, but with one 8 1/2"-by-11" crib sheet and a calculator permitted.
  Tables will be provided.

TOPICS
• Design of experiments
  • Concepts/definitions
    • units, subjects
    • treatments, factors, levels
    • blocks
  • Principles of experimental design
    • Control (of lurking variables)
    • Randomization
    • Replication, i.e., use of many units/subjects
• Analysis of variance (ANOVA/AOV)
  • One-way ANOVA
    • F test
    • Confidence intervals
  • AOV of randomized block designs (with just one observation per treatment-block pair)
    • F tests
    • Confidence intervals
  • Other types of ANOVA will not be on the exam.
• Analysis of categorical data
  • Multinomial experiments and the chi-square test
  • Contingency (two-way) tables

Note: I'm trying to devise questions that do not place a heavy computational burden on you, e.g., by providing pre-computed sums or means and (possibly partial) ANOVA tables.

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