welding: Data: Tensile Strength of Welds
Description
This is a highly fractionated two-level factorial design employed as a screening design
in an off-line welding experiment performed by the National Railway Corporation of Japan.
There were 16 runs and 9 experimental factors. The response variable is the observed
tensile strength of the weld, one of several quality characteristics measured. All other
variables are at plus and minus levels.format
A data frame containing the following variables.
All the explanatory variables are numeric with two levels, -1 and 1.
lll{
	Variable 	Description
	Rods 	Kind of welding rods
	Drying 	Period of drying
	Material 	Welded material
	Thickness 	Thickness
	Angle 	Angle
	Opening 	Opening
	Current 	Current
	Method 	Welding method
	Preheating 	Preheating
	Strength 	Tensile strength of the weld in kg/mm. The response variable.
}source
http://www.statsci.org/data/general/welding.htmlReferences
Smyth, G. K., Huele, F., and Verbyla, A. P. (2001). Exact and approximate REML for heteroscedastic regression. Statistical Modelling 1, 161-175.
Smyth, G. K. (2002). An efficient algorithm for REML in heteroscedastic regression. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 11, 1-12.