TY - JOUR
AU - Duckworth, W. E.
AB - The Statistician, Vol. 15, No.1 Statistical Method in Metallurgical Development w. E. DUCKWORTH Synopsis A TECHNIQUE of applying fractional factorial experimental design to the study of a large number of metallurgical variables is described. It is shown that, subject to certain pre-requisites, the possible results of a full factorial design comprising many treatments can be pre­ dicted from a few experiments. The technique has been applied in the development of a process for producing very high strength steels and it is shown that the predicted results agree closely with actual results obtained subsequently. Introduction The use of statistical techniques in what may loosely be described as search applications has been developed for many years in the biological, pharmaceutical, and chemical fields , 2 , 3. It is relatively new in metallurgy. One reason may be that the screening methods appropriate for the selection of drugs are not needed in metallurgical research where the responses to treatments can generally be discussed in more definite quantitative terms. The other search technique of Box and Wilson- may seem at first sight to be more apposite but this, too, is often restricted in its application to metallurgical work because there are often definite 
TI - Statistical Method in Metallurgical Development
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician
DO - 10.2307/2987239
DA - 2018-12-05
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/statistical-method-in-metallurgical-development-9FqPPgYmj3
SP - 7
EP - 30
VL - 15
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -