David Salsburg
David Salsburg has been a naval officer, college professor, scientific researcher, and, now, author. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with honors in History in 1952, then spent three years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After five years in the kosher meat business, he returned to school for a master’s degree in Mathematics from Trinity College, Hartford, and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Connecticut. He has taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Connecticut, and Connecticut College. For 27 years, he engaged in research at Pfizer, Inc., working on the development of new drugs, where he rose to the top of the company’s scientific ladder. David retired from Pfizer in 1995 and has since taught courses at Harvard and Yale Universities. He has many scientific publications, including three academic books. David has also written popular science books, The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century and Errors, Blunders, and Lies: How to Tell the Difference.
Cautionary Tales in Designed Experiments
The beauty of DOE is about learning—from mistakes, from trying new things, and from working with others.
Cautionary Tales in Designed Experiments aims to explain statistical design of experiments (DOE), Ronald Fisher’s great innovation, to readers with minimal mathematical knowledge and skills. The book starts with historical examples and goes on to cover missteps, mismanaged experiments, learnings, the importance of randomization, and more. In later chapters, the book covers more statistical concepts, such as various designs for experiments, analysis of variance, Bayes’ theorem in DOE, measurement, and when experiments fail. The book concludes by citing the ubiquity of statistical design of experiments.
Featured Authors
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Todd Case has been working in the pharmaceutical industry as a statistical programmer for over 20 years. He completed his MS in Epidemiology from Columbia University and has worked at Forest Laboratories (now Allergan), Genentech, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Biogen. He currently works at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
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Ron Klimberg, PhD, is a professor at the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA.
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Robert N. Rodriguez retired from SAS in 2018 after serving as a senior director in research and development. Bob received a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a research statistician at General Motors Research Laboratories before joining SAS.
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Terisa Roberts is a director and Global Solution lead for Risk Modeling and Decisioning at SAS. She has extensive experience in quantitative risk management, regulatory compliance, and model governance and validation. She has worked in financial services, telecommunications, government, energy, and retail sectors.