Optimal Designs for the Evaluation of an Extremum Point

Contents: Part I: Theory. Some History Leading to Design Criteria for Bayesian Prediction; A.C. Atkinson, V.V. Fedorov. Optimal Designs for the Evaluation of an Extremum Point; R.C.H. Cheng, et al. On Regression Experiment Design in the Presence of Systematic Error; S.M. Ermakov. Grobner Basis Methods in Mixture Experiments and Generalisations; B. Giglio, et al. Efficient Designs for Paired Comparisons with a Polynomial Factor; H. Grosmann, et al. On Generating and Classifying All qn-m Regular Designs for Square-Free q; P.J. Laycock, P.J. Rowley. Second-Order Optimal Sequential Tests; M.B. Malyutov, I.I. Tsitovich. Variational Calculus in the Space of Measures and Optimal Design; I. Molchanov, S. Zuyev. On the Efficiency of Generally Balanced Designs Analysed by Restricted Maximum Likelihood; H. Monod. Concentration Sets, Elfving Sets and Norms in Optimum Design; A. Pazman. Sequential Construction of an Experimental Design from an I.I.D. Sequence of Experiments without Replacement; L. Pronzato. Optimal Characteristic Designs for Polynomial Models; J.M. Rodriguez-Diaz, J. Lopez-Fidalgo. A Note on Optimal Bounded Designs; M. Sahm, R. Schwabe. Construction of Constrained Optimal Designs; B. Torsney, S. Mandal. Part II: Applications. Pharmaceutical Applications of a Multi-Stage Group Testing Method; B. Bond, et al. Block Designs for Comparison of Two Test Treatments with a Control; S.M. Bortnick, et al. Optimal Sampling Design with Random Size Clusters for a Mixed Model with Measurement Errors; A. Giovagnoli, L. Martino. Optimizing a Unimodal Response Function for Binary Variables; J. Hardwick, Q.F. Stout. An Optimizing Up-And-Down Design; E.E. Kpamegan, N. Flournoy. Further Results on Optimal and Efficient Designs for Constrained Mixture Experiments; R.J. Martin, et al. Coffee-House Designs; W.G. Muller. (D,t, C)-Optimal Run Orders; L. Tack, M. Vandebroek. Optimal Design in Flexible Models, including Feed-Forward Networks and Nonparametric Regression; D.M. Titterington. On Optimal Designs for High Dimensional Binary Regression Models; B. Torsney, N. Gunduz. Planning Herbicide Dose-Response Bioassays Using the Bootstrap; S.S. Zocchi, C.G. Borges Demetrio. Photo Gallery. Optimum Design 2000: List of Participants.