Course notices:

I will hold limited office hours during revision week 2013. See my main webpage for updates.

Here is the exam paper for the year 2012.

How was the students' performance in coursework and the discussion? Here is a scatterplot with (anonymized) data and 90% confidence ellipsoid.

Course information sheet.

Reading list.

Chapters from Rosemary Bailey's book (Design of comparative experiments) in PDF format: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11.

Week 1: Practical zero. Code in R for the vector spaces and data.

Week 2: No practical

Week 3: Practical one.

Week 4: Practical two.

Week 5: Practical three.

Week 6: Practical four. Ladies data sets: LADIES.XLS and LADIES.DAT.

Week 8: Practical five.

Week 9: Practical six. Wear data set: WEAR.DAT and milk data LACT.DAT. Code in R for block and row-column designs.

Week 10: Practical seven. Apple data set: APPLE.DAT

Week 11: Practical eight. Alfalfa data set: ALFALFA.DAT and chickens data set: CHICKENS.DAT Code in R for a split-plot design and data to be used.

Week 12: Practical nine. Scabbiness data set: SCABBY.DAT Code in R for the practical and data used.

Assignment 1, for discussion on 18th January.

Assignment 2, for discussion on 25th January.

Assignment 3, for discussion on 1st February.

Assignment 4, for discussion on 8th February.

Assignment 5, for discussion on 14th February. Note discussion on Thursday instead of Friday.

Assignment 6, for discussion on 1st March.

Assignment 7, for discussion on 8th March.

Assignment 8, for discussion on 15th March.

Assignment 9, for discussion on 22nd March.

Final assignment, handed in 27th March by 12:00. Marking scheme and sample solution.

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