scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1235236
Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Factorial statistical designs (62K15) Design of statistical experiments (62K99) Design of statistical experiments (62Kxx)
This monograph is an outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author during the spring of 1993. It is organized in five chapters (``lessons), plus there are several pages of backmatter with data listings, Minitab macros, and computer output. While there is a good applications context, the approach is decidedly theoretical. Lesson 1 lays some foundations, notations, and distribution theory; emphasis is placed on \textit{interaction subspaces}. Symmetric factorial plans are developed in Lesson 2, in a development based on Galois fields. Topics include fractional designs, aliasing, resolution, and weight enumerating sequences. Lesson 3 is a short section on blocking. Lesson 4 is also brief, but it sets a new topical direction---metrics on finite sets---that lay the groundwork for the final, longest chapter, probability measures on cluster trees. There, we find a description of work that was in progress at the time and that, to this reviewer's eye, doesn't have much to do with the planning of experiments. There are results concerning the analysis of random binary trees, including assessing goodness of fit, classical confidence regions, hypothesis testing, and Bayesian analysis.
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