On the use of compound noise factor in parameter design experiments

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This paper deals with theoretical analysis of a compound noise factor technique which replaces a noise array by a compound noise factor that has only a few levels, typically two. The author considers the model \[ y=f(x_{1},\ldots,x_{l})+\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta_{j}z_{j}+ \sum_{j=1}^{m}\sum_{i=1}^{l}\gamma_{ij}x_{i}z_{j}, \] where \(x_{1},\ldots,x_{l}\) are the control factors, \(z_{1},\ldots,z_{m}\) are the noise factors, \(f(x_{1},\ldots,x_{l})\) is a general function, and \(z_{j}\) is symmetric about zero. Two settings \(z^{*}\) and \(z_{*}\) are called extreme compound noise settings if \(y(x;z^{*})=\max_{z}\{y(x;z)\}\) for any \(x\), resp. \(y(x;z_{*})=\min_{z}\{y(x;z)\}\) for any \(x\). The author proves that extreme settings exist if and only if \[ |\beta_{j}|\geq\sum_{i=1}^{l}|\gamma_{ij}|\quad \text{for}\quad j=1,\ldots,m, \] where \(x_{i}\) are rescaled to be in \([-1,1]\). Examples are given to show that extreme settings may not exist and to illustrate the ineffectiveness of extreme settings in some cases. Conditions that guarantee the effectiveness of the compound noise technique are obtained and numerical illustrations are presented.











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