In DOE Simplified - a comprehensive new introductory text geared towards readers with minimal statistical background - the authors take a fresh and lively approach to learning the fundamentals. The book coverage includes: basic statistics for DOE methods for collecting and displaying data how to draw inferences from data the purpose of confidence intervals comparative experiments for testing a hypothesis blocking sources of variation from analysis two-level factorial designs analysis of variance (ANOVA) Also included with the book is a free 180-day time limited, but fully functional, version of DOE statistical software. * * A patch is required to run the Design-EaseR 6 software CD-ROM that is distributed with the book. Please visit this web site: http: //www.statease.com/simplified.html, download the 6.0.

11 to 6.0.11b patch, and run it. If you have any difficulties, please e-mail support@statease.com or call 612.378.9449 and ask for software support.