Evaluate the Design

After generating a design, use the design evaluation tools to assess the ability of your design to meet your experimental goals. When you click Make Design, in most platforms, a Design Evaluation section appears. Here you can explore the design that you created in terms of its power to detect effects, its prediction variance, its estimation efficiency, its aliasing relationships, the correlations between effects, and other design efficiency measures. The Design Evaluation section for a Custom Design is shown in Figure 3.22. Design Evaluation is covered in “Evaluate Designs”.

For some platforms, other types of design diagnostics are appropriate. For example, Space Filling Design provides a Design Diagnostics section with metrics specific to space-filling designs. Covering Array provides a Metrics section with measures that are specific to coverage.

Figure 3.22 Design Evaluation in Custom Design