3.1.1 Types of Experimental Designs

The experimental designs primarily considered are summarized in Table 3.1.

Table 3.1: List of experimental designs.

Shortcut	Name
NOM	Nominal Design
SA	Screening Analysis
FUL	Full Factorial Design
CCF	Central Composite Face-centered Design
CCC	Central Composite Circumscribed Design
CCI	Central Composite Inscribed Design
RND	Random Design
GR	Gauß Random Design
DIA	Diagonal Design
GRI	Full Grid Design
G2D	Two Dimensional Grid Design
LAT	Latin Hypercube Design
FRA	Fractional Factorial Design
PLA	Plackett-Burman Design
OME	Orthogonal Main Effect Design
SUP	Supplemantary Design

In the following section n is the number of control parameters given to an experimental design. For every control parameter, nominal, minimum and maximum values have to be given. An n dimensional parameter sub space is spanned by these ranges. Optional transformations can be given for every parameter which is described in Section 3.1.17.