השוואת שיטות

	ניסוי פקטוריאלי חלקי בסמיות יחידה	ניסוי פקטוריאלי
תחום	תכנון ניסויים	תכנון ניסויים
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1940s–1950s (fractional factorial foundations); blinding conventions formalised through 1960s–1980s	1926–1935
הוגה השיטה	Fractional factorial theory: R. L. Plackett & J. P. Burman (1946); single-blinding practice codified in clinical trial methodology (20th century)	Ronald A. Fisher
סוג	Controlled experimental design	Quantitative experimental design
מקור מכונן	Box, G. E. P., Hunter, J. S., & Hunter, W. G. (2005). Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery (2nd ed.). Wiley-Interscience. ISBN: 978-0471718130	Fisher, R. A. (1935). The Design of Experiments. Oliver and Boyd.
כינויים	single-masked fractional factorial, single-blind FFD, partially blinded fractional factorial, single-blind 2^(k-p) design	factorial design, factorial ANOVA design, multi-factor experiment, crossed-factor design
קשורות	5	6
תקציר	A single-blind fractional factorial experiment studies multiple factors simultaneously by testing only a strategically chosen subset — a fraction — of all possible factor-level combinations, while keeping participants unaware of which treatment condition they receive. This design yields substantial information about main effects and selected interactions at a fraction of the cost of a full factorial experiment, with single-blinding reducing participant-side response bias.	A factorial experiment is an experimental design in which two or more independent variables (factors) are manipulated simultaneously, and every combination of their levels is tested. Introduced by Ronald Fisher in the 1920s–1930s, it is the standard approach whenever a researcher needs to detect not only the main effect of each factor but also whether the effect of one factor depends on the level of another — the interaction effect.