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SUMMARY:Dimensional Analysis in Experimental Design - Davis\, T
DTSTART:20111130T110000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, and since we are in the Isaac Newton Institute\
 , I will focus on using the physics of the problem being tackled to determ
 ine a strategy to design an experiment to fit a model for prediction. At t
 he heart of the approach is an application of Edgar Buckinghams 1914 Pi th
 eorem. Buckinghams result\, which is based on dimensional analysis\, has b
 een seemingly neglected by statisticians\, but it provides a bridge betwee
 n a purely theoretical approach to model building\, and an empirical one b
 ased on e.g. polynomial approximations such as 2nd order response surfaces
 .\n\nI will illustrate the ideas with a few examples\, in the hope that I 
 can show that dimensional analysis should take its place at the heart of e
 xperimental design in engineering applications.\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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