statmod (version 1.5.0)

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.

Usage

data(welding)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing the following variables. All the explanatory variables are numeric with two levels, -1 and 1.

VariableDescription
RodsKind of welding rods
DryingPeriod of drying
MaterialWelded material
ThicknessThickness
AngleAngle
OpeningOpening
CurrentCurrent
MethodWelding method
PreheatingPreheating
StrengthTensile strength of the weld in kg/mm. The response variable.

References

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.