Optimal mixture experiments (Q2442893)

The aim of this book is to present different aspects regarding the optimality for mixture designs. The contents is the following: 1. Mixture models and mixture designs: scope of the monograph; 2. Optimal regression designs; 3. Parameter estimation in linear and quadratic mixture models; 4. Optimal mixture designs for estimation of natural parameters in Scheffé's models; 5. Optimal mixture designs for estimation of natural parameters in Scheffé's model under constrained factor space; 6. Optimal mixture designs for estimation of natural parameters in other mixture models; 7. Optimal designs for estimation of optimum mixture in Scheffé's quadratic model; 8. More on estimation of optimum mixture in Scheffé's quadratic model; 9. Optimal designs for estimation of optimum mixture in Scheffé's quadratic model under constrained factor space; 10. Optimal designs for estimation of optimum mixture under Darroch-Waller and log-contrast models; 11. Applications of mixture experiments; 12. Miscellaneous topics: robust mixtures, random regression coefficients, multi-response experiments, mixture-amount models, blocking in mixture designs. It is a very important fact that in this monograph various aspects of mixture experiments are described from the point of view of optimality. At the end of each chapter, complete references are given, as well as applications of mixture experiments in agriculture, food processing and pharmaceutical studies are mentioned. At the end we find an up-to-date bibliography, an author index and a subject index. The book is very useful for both theoreticians and applied statisticians working especially in the field of mixture experiments using different mixture models.