This book is the third revised and updated English edition of the German
textbook \Versuchsplanung und Modellwahl" by Helge Toutenburg which was
based on more than 15 years experience of lectures on the course \ sign
of Experiments" at the University of Munich and interactions with the
statisticians from industries and other areas of applied sciences and
en- neering. This is a type of resource/ reference book which contains
statistical methods used by researchers in applied areas. Because of the
diverse ex- ples combined with software demonstrations it is also useful
as a textbook in more advanced courses, The applications of design of
experiments have seen a signi?cant growth in the last few decades in
di?erent areas like industries, pharmaceutical sciences, medical
sciences, engineering sciences etc. The second edition of this book
received appreciation from academicians, teachers, students and applied
statisticians. As a consequence, Springer-Verlag invited Helge
Toutenburg to revise it and he invited Shalabh for the third edition of
the book. In our experience with students, statisticians from industries
and - searchers from other ?elds of experimental sciences, we realized
the importance of several topics in the design of experiments which
will - crease the utility of this book. Moreover we experienced that
these topics are mostly explained only theoretically in most of the
available books.