FA 16

In a process development study on yield, four factors were studied, each at two levels: time (A), concentration (B), pressure (C), and temperature (D).

Part A:

a) Display the halfnormal plot for this data and determine which factors appear to be significant.

library(DoE.base)
A <- c(-1,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,1)
B <- c(-1,-1,1,1,-1,-1,1,1,-1,-1,1,1,-1,-1,1,1)
C <- c(-1,-1,-1,-1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,1,1,1,1)
D <- c(-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1)
Obs <- c(12,18,13,16,17,15,20,15,10,25,13,24,19,21,17,23)
Data <- data.frame(A,B,C,D,Obs)

Model <- lm(Obs~A*B*C*D,data = Data)
coef(Model)
##   (Intercept)             A             B             C             D 
##  1.737500e+01  2.250000e+00  2.500000e-01  1.000000e+00  1.625000e+00 
##           A:B           A:C           B:C           A:D           B:D 
## -3.750000e-01 -2.125000e+00  1.250000e-01  2.000000e+00 -8.543513e-17 
##           C:D         A:B:C         A:B:D         A:C:D         B:C:D 
##  1.110223e-16  5.000000e-01  3.750000e-01 -1.250000e-01 -3.750000e-01 
##       A:B:C:D 
##  5.000000e-01
halfnormal(Model)

Answer: So from the half normal plot we can conclude that factors A, D, AC & AD are appear to be significant.

Part B:

b) Pull terms that do not appear to be significant into error and test for the significance of the other effects at the 0.05 level of significance.

Model3 <- aov(Obs~A+C+D+A*C+A*D,data = Data)
summary(Model3)
##             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value   Pr(>F)    
## A            1  81.00   81.00  49.846 3.46e-05 ***
## C            1  16.00   16.00   9.846 0.010549 *  
## D            1  42.25   42.25  26.000 0.000465 ***
## A:C          1  72.25   72.25  44.462 5.58e-05 ***
## A:D          1  64.00   64.00  39.385 9.19e-05 ***
## Residuals   10  16.25    1.62                     
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Answer: So ANOVA analysis tell us that factors A,C,D,AC & AD are significant. Only factor that we got additional from halfnormal plot is factor C, which is not as significant as others but is fairly significant at a significance level of 0.05.