Learn DOE with Synthace

What is DOE?

Introduction to DOE

DOE: Experiments and Campaigns

DOE and Modelling

Getting Started

Creating a DOE Design

Identify parameters to treat as factors

Element parameters and DOE factors

How to mark element parameters to be treated as DOE factors

Defining your factors in Synthace

Numerical Factors

What are numerical factors and how do they relate to element parameters?

How to define a numerical factor in a mixture

How to define a numerical volume factor

How to define a custom numerical factor

Categorical Factors

What are categorical factors and how do they relate to element parameters?

How to define a categorical diluent factor

How to define a categorical mixture component factor

How to define a custom categorical factor

Mutual Exclusion

What is a mutually exclusive factor?

The statistics behind mutually exclusive factors

How to define a mutually exclusive factor

Derived Factors

Derived numerical factors

What are derived numerical factors?

What types of calculations are supported in Synthace?

How to define a derived numerical factor in a mixture

Derived categorical factors

What are derived categorical factors?

How to derive categorical factor levels from another categorical factor

How to derive categorical factor levels from numerical factor levels

Quasi-Repicates

What are quasi-replicates and when might I use them?

How to define a Quasi-Replicate factor

How to define multiple Quasi-Replicate factors

Hard To Change Factors

What are Hard To Change factors and when might I need to use them?

How are Hard To Change factors handled statistically?

How to define a hard-to-change factor in a mixture

Custom Factors

What are custom factors and how can they be used?

How to define a custom numerical factor

How to define a custom categorical factor

Constants

What are constants and when might I use them?

How to define a constant in a mixture

Calculate Designs

Design selection overview

What is the best design for me

Space-Filling Designs

What are space-filling designs and when are they useful?

What are the statistics behind space-filling designs?

How to calculate a space-filling design

Optimal Designs

What are optimal designs and when are they useful?

What are the statistics behind optimal designs?

How to calculate an optimal design

Full Factorial

What are full factorial designs and when are they useful?

What are the statistics behind full factorial designs

How to calculate full factorial designs

Using third party tools for design calculations

Why you might want to still use third party statistical software?

How to export factors from, and import designs into Synthace. (Coming soon!)

Defining Controls

What are controls and when might I define them? (Coming soon!)

How to define control runs (Coming soon!)

How to order control runs within design runs (Coming soon!)

Randomizing run order

Why should I consider randomizing run order? (Coming soon!)

How to randomize replicate run order (Coming soon!)

How to randomize quasi-replicate run order (Coming soon!)

Assessing Design Quality

How do I know if my design is good enough?

The statistics behind design diagnostics

How do I generate design diagnostics? (Coming soon!)

Simulating DOE Workflows

What are simulation series?

How to group runs by factor and level

How to group runs by maximum run capacity

Structuring and Analysing Data

Upload data

Adding Data To Your Runs

Data structuring and preparation

What is data structuring and preparation? (Coming soon!)

Using the DOE Data Preparation App (Coming soon!)

Response analysis

What is linear statistical modelling?

Introduction to linear statistical modelling for DOE

Model fundamentals, and what does linear mean anyway?

Putting it together: the modelling loop

Before you start modelling, visualise your data

Why is visualising your data a great place to start

How to create plots of your data (Coming soon!)

How to create plate maps of your data (Coming soon!)

Identifying significant effects and fitting models

Choosing the effects to include in your model

The Find Effects Tab

What does find effects do?

Statistical reference for find effects

How to find significant effects

How to manually adjust effects of interest

How to use significant effects plots

How to create a model from significant effects (Coming soon!)

Fitting a stepwise regression model

What are stepwise regression models?

The statistics behind stepwise regression models

How to fit a stepwise regression model to your data (Coming soon!)

Fitting a LASSO regression model

What are LASSO regression models?

The statistics behind LASSO regression models

How to fit a LASSO regression model to your data (Coming soon!)

Selecting effects manually (Coming soon!)

Assessing your model quality

Validating Your Model

The statistics behind model diagnostics

How to create model diagnostics (Coming soon!)

Improving your model iteratively

Fixing Model Validation Issues: Transformations and Row Sets

The statistics behind transformations

How to select and save subsets of my data

How to apply and save a predefined transform to my data

How to perform predefined column based calculations on my data

How to apply and save a custom transform to my data

Exploring your models and making predictions

What can you use your models for?

The statistics behind model prediction

How to predict the best conditions from your model

How to predict the best conditions from multiple models

How to use your model to decide on your next steps

Browsing models

Statistical Reference for Browse Models

How to use the browse models tab (Coming soon!)

Data versioning and history

Why do i need to version my data? (Coming soon!)

Using the Version History Panels (Coming soon!)