Design of Experiments

The working group on Design of Experiments (DOE) is interested in various statistical aspects of the planning of experimental research. While the scientific targets of different experiments differ and depend on the application area (e.g. engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, agriculture, etc.), one statistical methodology is required to achieve them. This unites the interests and effort of group members working in the academia, as well as in specified research areas or industry.

For example, the design of an experiment studying the transformation of a chemical compound to another may require an experimental strategy similar to that needed to study drug availability in a living organism. The reason for that is that in both cases the same type of statistical model has to be estimated using experimental data, albeit with rather different interpretation of the model parameters.

A typical challenge that we face is how much and what data to choose to collect in order to estimate a statistical model that would allow addressing the research questions of the experimental study. The design of experiments may be required to estimate models including linear, nonlinear, linear mixed, nonlinear mixed and generalized linear or nonlinear mixed effects models. Inevitably, many members of the DOE working group are also interested in data analysis and statistical modeling.

Experimental research is iterative by nature, and the specific challenges at each stage are different and often shaped up by the specific areas of applications. In all cases, it has become increasingly common to seek solutions using analytical and computer intensive methods. The Design of Experiments has become a fascinating area of research in Statistics, as well as a powerful way for statisticians to influence developments in other sciences.

Co-Chairs
Ray-bing Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
John Stufken, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
Members
  1. Mariano Amo-Salas, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  2. Stefanie Biedermann, The Open University, United Kingdom.
  3. Wolfgang Bischoff, Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany.
  4. Barbara Bogacka, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
  5. Iavor Bojinov, Harvard Business School, United States.
  6. Chris Brien, University of South Australia, Australia.
  7. Victor Casero-Alonso, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  8. Marion Chatfield, University of Southampton GlaxoSmithKline, United Kingdom.
  9. Sylvain Coly, Universite Clermont Auvergne, France.
  10. Rodrigo del Campo, Universidad Salamanca, Spain.
  11. Elvira Delgado-Marquez, University of Castilla - la Mancha, Spain.
  12. Holger Dette, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany.
  13. Peng Ding, University of California, Berkeley, United States.
  14. Alexander Donev, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
  15. Tsai-Hung Fan, National Central University, Taiwan.
  16. Sandra Ferreira, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal.
  17. Lenka Filova, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
  18. Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri, United States.
  19. Roberto Fontana, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
  20. Subir Ghosh, University of California, United States.
  21. Steven Gilmour, KCL, United Kingdom.
  22. Peter Goos, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium.
  23. Ulrike Groemping, Berliner Hochschule fuer Technik, Germany.
  24. Heiko Grossmann, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
  25. Linda Haines, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
  26. Radoslav Harman, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
  27. Ralf-Dieter Hilgers, RWTH University Aachen, Germany.
  28. Linda Lee Ho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  29. Xun Huan, University of Michigan, United States.
  30. Shahariar Huda, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
  31. Marc Joets, IESEG School of Management, France.
  32. MingHung Kao, Arizona State University, United States.
  33. Ron Kenett, KPA Israel and University of Turin Italy, Israel.
  34. Kevin Knuth, University at Albany - SUNY, United States.
  35. Maria Konstantinou, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
  36. Sergei Leonov, ICON Clinical Research, United States.
  37. Chang-Yun Lin, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
  38. Ying Lu, Stanford University, United States.
  39. Bergrun Magnusdottir, Stockholm University, Sweden.
  40. Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia, United States.
  41. Raul Martin-Martin, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  42. France Mentre, University Paris Diderot, France.
  43. Frank Miller, Stockholm University, Sweden.
  44. Hyunhong Min, University of Oxford, Korea, South.
  45. Mirjam Moerbeek, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
  46. Herve Monod, INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France.
  47. Werner Mueller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
  48. Alba Munoz, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  49. Kalliopi Mylona, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain.
  50. Hans Nyquist, Stockholm University, Sweden.
  51. Ben Parker, Brunel University, United Kingdom.
  52. Roger Payne, VSN International, UK.
  53. Greg Piepel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
  54. Fernando Plo, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
  55. Elon Portugaly, Microsoft, United Kingdom.
  56. Fabio Postiglione, University of Salerno, Italy.
  57. Satya Prakash Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
  58. Garima Priyadarshini, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
  59. Fabio Rapallo, University of Genova, Italy.
  60. Eva Riccomagno, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy.
  61. M Jesus Rivas-Lopez, University of Salamanca, Spain.
  62. Licesio Rodriguez-Aragon, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  63. Juan M Rodriguez-Diaz, University of Salamanca, CIF Q3718001E, Spain.
  64. Aiste Ruseckaite, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  65. Eleonora Saggini, University of Genoa, Italy.
  66. Rainer Schwabe, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.
  67. Milan Stehlik, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
  68. John Stufken, George Mason University, United States.
  69. Randy Tobias, SAS Institute, USA.
  70. Chiara Tommasi, University of Milan, Italy.
  71. Ben Torsney, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  72. Viktor Trapouzanlis, University of Piraeus, Greece.
  73. Dariusz Ucinski, University of Zielona Gora, Poland.
  74. Martina Vandebroek, K.U. Leuven, Belgium.
  75. Carla Almeida Vivacqua, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil.
  76. Xikui Wang, University of Manitoba, Canada.
  77. David Woods, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
  78. C. F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
  79. Henry Wynn, London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
  80. Po Yang, University of Manitoba, Canada.
  81. Elena Yarovaya, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
  82. Noha Youssef, American University in Cairo, Egypt.