Pharmaceutical Experimental Design and

Completely revised and updated, Pharmaceutical Experimental Design and Interpretation, Second Edition explains the major methods of experimental design and evaluation such as multivariate, sequential, and principal components analysis. With new sections on neural networks, artificial intelligence, fractional designs, and optimization techniques, this source will prove invaluable to anyone involved in the design and execution of pharmaceutical research studies and the interpretation of study data.

N. Anthony Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics, Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales, United Kingdom

Chapter 1 Introduction to Experimental Design

1.1 The Experimental Process

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1.2 Computers and Experimental Design

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1.3 Overview of Experimental Design and Interpretation

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Chapter 2 Comparison of Mean Values

2.1 Introduction

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2.2 Comparison of Means when the Variance of the Whole Population is Known

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2.3 Comparison of Two Means when the Variance of the Whole Population is Not Known

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2.3.1 Treatment of Outlying Data Points

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2.4 Comparison of Means between More Than Two Groups of Data

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2.4.1 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

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2.4.2 The Least Significant Difference

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2.4.3 Two-Way Analysis of Variance

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Chapter 3 Nonparametric Methods

3.1 Introduction

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3.2 Nonparametric Tests for Paired Data

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3.2.1 The Sign Test

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3.2.2 The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test

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3.3 Nonparametric Tests for Unpaired Data

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3.3.1 The Wilcoxon Two-Sample Test

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Chapter 4 Regression and Correlation

4.1 Introduction

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4.2 Linear Regression

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4.2.1 The Number of Degrees of Freedom (Cell B11 in Table 4.4)

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4.2.2 The Coefficient of Determination (r²) (Cell A10 in Table 4.4)

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4.2.3 The Standard Errors of the Coefficients (Cells A9 and B9 in Table 4.4)

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4.2.4 The F Value or Variance Ratio (Cell All in Table 4.4)

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4.2.5 The Two Regression Lines

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4.3 Curve Fitting of Nonlinear Relationships

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4.3.1 The Power Series

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4.3.2 Quadratic Relationships

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4.3.3 Cubic Equations

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4.3.4 Transformations

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4.4 Multiple Regression Analysis

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4.4.1 Correlation Coefficients

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4.4.2 Standard Error of the Coefficients and the Intercept

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4.4.3 F Value

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4.5 Interaction between Independent Variables

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4.6 Stepwise Regression

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4.7 Rank Correlation

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4.8 Comments on the Correlation Coefficient

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Chapter 5 Multivariate Methods

5.1 Introduction

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5.2 Multivariate Distances

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5.2.1 Distance Matrices

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5.3 Covariance Matrices

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5.4 Correlation Matrices

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5.5 Cluster Analysis

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5.5.1 Cartesian Plots

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5.5.2 Dendrograms

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5.6 Discrimination Analysis

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5.7 Principal Components Analysis

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5.8 Factor Analysis

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Chapter 6 Factorial Design of Experiments

6.1 Introduction

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6.2 Two-Factor, Two-Level Factorial Designs

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6.2.1 Two-Factor, Two-Level Factorial Designs with Interaction between the Factors

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6.3 Notation in Factorially Designed Experiments

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6.4 Factorial Designs with Three Factors and Two Levels

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6.5 Factorial Design and Analysis of Variance

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6.5.1 Yates's Treatment

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6.5.2 Factorial Design and Linear Regression

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6.6 Replication in Factorial Designs

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6.7 The Sequence of Experiments

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6.8 Factorial Designs with Three Levels

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6.9 Three-Factor, Three-Level Factorial Designs

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6.9.1 Mixed or Asymmetric Designs

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6.10 Blocked Factorial Designs

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6.11 Fractional Factorial Designs

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6.12 Plackett–Burman Designs

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6.13 Central Composite Designs

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6.14 Box–Behnken Designs

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6.15 Doehlert Designs

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6.16 The Efficiency of Experimental Designs

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Chapter 7 Response-Surface Methodology

7.1 Introduction

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7.2 Constraints, Boundaries, and the Experimental Domain

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7.3 Response Surfaces Generated from First-Order Models

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7.4 Response Surfaces Generated by Models of a Higher Order

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7.5 Response-Surface Methodology with Three or More Factors

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Chapter 8 Model-Dependent Optimization

8.1 Introduction

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8.2 Model-Dependent Optimization

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8.2.1 Extension of the Design Space

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8.3 Optimization by Combining Contour Plots

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8.4 Location of the Optimum of Multiple Responses by the Desirability Function

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8.5 Optimization Using Pareto-Optimality

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Chapter 9 Sequential Methods and Model-Independent Optimization

9.1 Introduction

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9.2 Sequential Analysis

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9.2.1 Wald Diagrams

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9.3 Model-Independent Optimization

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9.3.1 Optimization by Simplex Search

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9.4 Comparison of Model-Independent and Model-Dependent Methods

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Chapter 10 Experimental Designs for Mixtures

10.1 Introduction

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10.2 Three-Component Systems and Ternary Diagrams

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10.3 Mixtures with More Than Three Components

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10.4 Response-Surface Methodology in Experiments with Mixtures

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10.4.1 Rectilinear Relationships between Composition and Response

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10.4.2 Derivation of Contour Plots from Rectilinear Models

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10.4.3 Higher-Order Relationships between Composition and Response

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10.4.4 Contour Plots Derived from Higher-Order Equations

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10.5 The Optimization of Mixtures

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10.6 Pareto-Optimality and Mixtures

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10.7 Process Variables in Mixture Experiments

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Chapter 11 Artificial Neural Networks and Experimental Design

11.1 Introduction

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11.1.1 Pharmaceutical Applications of ANNs

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Appendix 1 Statistical Tables

A1.1 The Cumulative Normal Distribution (Gaussian Distribution)

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A1.2 Student's t Distribution

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A1.3 Analysis of Variance

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Appendix 2 Matrices

A2.1 Introduction

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A2.2 Addition and Subtraction of Matrices

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A2.3 Multiplication of Matrices

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A2.3.1 Multiplying a Matrix by a Constant

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A2.3.2 Multiplication of One Matrix by Another

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A2.3.3 Multiplication by a Unit Matrix

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A2.3.4 Multiplication by a Null Matrix

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A2.3.5 Transposition of Matrices

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A2.3.6 Inversion of Matrices

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A2.4 Determinants

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Index

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