How to optimize products?

ANOVA experiment analysis is the answer!

ANOVA is an experiment method which allows you to evaluate the effect of different factors over a certain response and locally optimize the performance of a desired and meassurable variable.

Imagine you are trying to create the fluffiest cupcake for your cake shop, however the combination of many different ingredients and processes may or not affect this characteristic of your product.

An example of some of the variables (factors) that may affect the fluffiness of your desert might be:

• Ammount of butter
• Ammount of milk
• Baking temperature

ANOVA will allow you to determine which of the factors are determinant on the fluffiness of your cupcake and will allow you to understand under what conditions you will get your perfect cake.

The app that was done for this course consists on an ANOVA calculator for 4 different factors.

For this example we will imagine some cupcake flufiness data and only two factors, for a 200g mix:

• Baking temperature
  180 Celcius
  200 Celcius
• Amount of butter
  40 g
  50 g
  60 g
  

1. First we input the information in the spreadsheet displayed.

2.Save and submit.

3.We can check basic summary stats.

4.Analyze the significance of our factor with the ANOVA analysis.

5.Bake the perfect cup cake.