This web-based training introduces Design Expert and refreshes your statistic knowledge. A basic understanding of statistics is essential for creating designs of experiments. The following, detailed list shows the important topics of this training.

Duration:

6 lessons each 45 minutes

Outline:

• Session 1: Statistical Thinking and Descriptive Statistics
  • Sample and Population
  • Descriptive Statistics - Mean and Median
  • Variance and Standarddeviation
  • Causes of Variance - Systematic and random Variance, Error in Measurements
• Session 2: The normal distribution and the central limit theorem
  • About the normal distribution
  • Test for normal distribution
  • Central Limit Theorem
• Session 3: Hypothesis Tests
  • Concept of statistical Tests
  • Null Hypothesis and Alternative Hypothesis
  • Desicion rules - Type I and Type II Error
  • Confidencelevel, Relevance, Power and Samplesize
  • Reference Distribution (optional)
• Session 4: T-Test
  • Performing a simple T-Test
  • Two Sample T-Test
  • Paired Samples: Paired T-Test (optional)
  • Interpretation of T-Tests
• Session 5: Analysis of Variances
  • Analysis of Variances (ANOVA) and the F-Test
  • Sum of Squares
  • Degrees of Freedom
  • Interpretation of F-Values
• Session 6: Regression
  • Applying Regression
  • Least squares estimation
  • Correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites are an Personal Computer with internet access and a internal or external speaker connected to your PC.