{"id":785,"date":"2013-12-19T06:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T05:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=785"},"modified":"2013-12-19T06:43:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T05:43:37","slug":"statistics-for-better-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2013\/statistics-for-better-cookies","title":{"rendered":"Statistics for better cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re unhappy with how your cookies turned out, don&#8217;t know which ingredient or which process variable caused the trouble, and don&#8217;t have the time, ingredients, or test eaters to vary each variable individually: <a title=\"Cookie DOE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minitab.com\/en-us\/News\/Sugar,-Spice,-and-Everything-Statistics--Using-Design-of-Experiments-to-Bake-a-Better-Cookie\/\" target=\"_blank\">statistics to the rescue<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 Done right, design of experiment allows an appreciable reduction in trials without losing the information on which variables have a significant effect on the process.\u00c2\u00a0 Doing it with a cookie recipe provides an accessible illustration of how it&#8217;s done.\u00c2\u00a0 In this case, the trial runs were reduced by at least a third, depending on how an individual variation experiment might be set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re unhappy with how your cookies turned out, don&#8217;t know which ingredient or which process variable caused the trouble, and don&#8217;t have the time, ingredients, or test eaters to vary each variable individually: statistics to the rescue!\u00c2\u00a0 Done right, design of experiment allows an appreciable reduction in trials without losing the information on which variables have a significant effect on the process.\u00c2\u00a0 Doing it with a cookie recipe provides an accessible illustration of how it&#8217;s done.\u00c2\u00a0 In this case, the trial runs were reduced by at least a third, depending on how an individual variation experiment might be set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}