Model Browser User's Guide

Design Styles

The Design Editor provides the interface for building experimental designs. You can make three different styles of design: classical, space-filling, and optimal.

Optimal designs are best for cases with high system knowledge, where previous studies have given confidence on the best type of model to be fitted, and the constraints of the system are well understood. See Optimal Designs.

Space-filling designs are better when there is low system knowledge. In cases where you are not sure what type of model is appropriate, and the constraints are uncertain, space-filling designs collect data in such as a way as to maximize coverage of the factors' ranges as quickly as possible. See Space-Filling Designs.

Classical designs (including full factorial) are very well researched and are suitable for simple regions (hypercube or sphere). Engines have complex constraints and models (high-order polynomials and splines). See Classical Designs.

You can augment any design by optimally adding points. Working in this way allows new experiments to enhance the original, rather than simply being a second attempt to gain the necessary knowledge.

What Is Design of Experiment?

Starting the Design Editor