Issue: Volume 5, Number 7
Date: July 2005
From: Mark J. Anderson, Stat-Ease, Inc. (http://www.statease.com)

Dear Experimenter,

Here's another set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about doing design of experiments (DOE), plus alerts to timely information and free software updates. If you missed the previous DOE FAQ Alert, please click on the links at the bottom of this page. If you have a question that needs answering, click the Search tab and enter the key words. This finds not only answers from previous Alerts, but also other documents posted to the Stat-Ease web site.

Feel free to forward this newsletter to your colleagues. They can subscribe by going to http://www.statease.com/doealertreg.html. If this newsletter prompts you to ask your own questions about DOE, please address them via mail to:[email protected].

Here's an appetizer to get this Alert off to a good start—an unearthly photograph of a sunset over the Gusev Crater on Mars: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q1AE21A4B. It was captured by the rover Spirit under direction from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Cal Tech. I received this fabulous photo automatically via the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (APOD) screen saver at http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/, which links to the source: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/.

July 5th's APOD was a photograph taken by Deep Impact's mother ship of the previous day's crash into comet Tempel 1 by its martyrous offspring. For this picture and many others of this celestial fireworks display coinciding with our Independence Day holiday here in the United States of America, see http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html.

The news media are trying to work up concern about debris from the comet harming people on Earth. Last week's premiere of Spielberg's latest movie "War of the Worlds" (WoW) may be making Americans jittery about objects from outer space. Sitting only four rows from my local theatre's "UltraScreen," I was blown away by this film (or was it the incredible bass vibrations from the massive theatrical sub-woofer?). For movie trailers, check out the awesome WoW web-site at http://www.waroftheworlds.com/.

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1. Newsletter alert: The July issue of the Stat-Teaser features strip-block design that saved millions of defective batteries

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3. Info alert: Case study on DOE to improve a semiconductor process; and a DOE primer for optical engineers

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I hope you learned something from this issue. Address your general questions and comments to me at: [email protected].

Sincerely,

Mark

Mark J. Anderson, PE, CQE
Principal, Stat-Ease, Inc. (http://www.statease.com)
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"A person with one watch knows the time. The owner of two can never be certain."
—Unknown

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— Stat-Ease programmers, especially Tryg Helseth (http://www.statease.com/pgmstaff.html)
— Heidi Hansel, Stat-Ease marketing director, and all the remaining staff

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