Wendell F. Smith is retired from Eastman Kodak Company Research Laboratories and currently spends his time teaching short courses for the American Chemical Society and for Statistical Designs in Houston, Texas. He has written articles in the area of mixture experiments and in chemistry.
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Preface; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction; 2. Mixture space; 3. Models for a mixture setting; Part II. Design: 4. Designs for simplex-shaped regions; 5. Designs for non-simplex-shaped regions; 6. Design evaluation; 7. Blocking mixture experiments; Appendix 7A; Part III. Analysis: 8. Building models in a mixture setting; 9. Model evaluation; 10. Model revision; 11. Effects; 12. Optimization; Part IV. Special Topics: 13. Including process variables; 14. Collinearity; Bibliography; Index.
I have long awaited Dr. Smith's text and now that it is in print I am pleased to offer my heartiest congratulations on a job well done. I am very impressed by the amount of discussion in the text devoted to the topics of model building and model evaluation and I hope the software companies that support the fitting of mixture models will incorporate the topics discussed in the text in their software. John A. Cornell, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, University of Florida