With modern technological advances, products and processes are becoming exceedingly complicated. As the cost of experimentation rises rapidly, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the analyst, who is already constrained by resources and time, to investigate the numerous factors that affect these complex processes using trial and error methods. This course goal is to investigate a technique that identifies the "vital few" factors in the most efficient manner, and then directs the process to its best setting to meet the ever increasing demand for improved quality and increased productivity.
In technical terms, the objective of this course is to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between a number of independent variables and a dependent variable of interest.