Hypothesis test

Plackett-Burman Screening Design

The Plackett-Burman design is a two-level orthogonal screening design introduced by R.L. Plackett and J.P. Burman in 1946 that allows researchers to estimate the main effect of each factor independently using the smallest possible number of experimental runs. Run counts are always multiples of four, making it exceptionally economical for studies with many candidate factors.

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Sources

  1. Plackett, R.L. & Burman, J.P. (1946). The Design of Optimum Multifactorial Experiments. Biometrika, 33(4), 305–325. DOI: 10.1093/biomet/33.4.305
  2. Montgomery, D.C. (2017). Design and Analysis of Experiments (9th ed.). Wiley. ISBN: 978-1119492443

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