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Response Surface Methodology: Process and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

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I took my first short course in response surface designs from Ray Myers at an IPE course. He was a great teacher and taught out of his first book. That book was self-published after he had disagreements with his original publisher. Many years later he and Doug Montgomery joined forces and published the first edition of this book with Wiley. I have reviewed that book previously for amazon.
This second edition is ideal. When I took the course I understood the material so well that I was able to apply the methodology right away in my work. The clarity of these authors is outstanding and they provide a wealth of well illustrated examples. It also is greatly expanded and has many student exercises at the end of each chapter. In addition to the standard response surface designs the book does a good job of coevring experimental design concepts in general and even covers Taguchi designs and robust parameter design. In addition topics such as mixture experiments and evolutionary operation are covered. Advanced topics include the generalized linear models and the general estimating equations approach to mixed effects models and repeated measures ANOVA.

Very authoritative with an extensive list of references and appendices to aid understanding.

As a quality engineer for Xerox Mexicana, application of DOE and RSM is part of the day-to-day activities. This book is an excellent tutor to apply RSM. Highly recommended.

This book is the best Response Surface book available today and was used in my graduate Response Surface courses. Myers and Montgomery do not miss any points with this book - Expected Mean Squares and Nested Factorial Designs are part of the design and analysis of Factorial designs , which are a completely separate field of DOE. These points have no relevance in Response Surface Methodology.

If you are looking for an excellent book, this is the one for you! It includes many practical discussions on choosing the right design for your analysis (great for engineers), as well as details of the matrix algebra used in the analysis of response surface designs (great for methematicians or statisticians). You will not find a better book!

Myers & Montgomery have woven an invaluable resource that combines theory and application for a large variety of problems that can be investigated using RSM. This is one of those texts that should be on the shelf of a researcher and modeler.

I was looking for a book that deals response surface analysis. I found it. It's a very important book for professionals like process engineering, physician, chemical, etc.

I recommend to buy this book.

Response Surface Methodology: Process and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

This book is too hard to read. I had a great professor that explained the material very well. Maybe it requires more background in statistics than I had. The reader would need to know the theoretical and proofs side of statistics.

Montgomery and Myers omit major points in the analyis of responses surfaces. No where do they mention the concept of expected mean squares, or nested factorial designs. This book may be adequate for an engineer, but for a serious mathematician, it is not at a sufficient level. If you found this book lacking, try Skillings and Webber's book: Experimental Designs.