Design-Ease® Software, Version 6.0Make Breakthrough Improvements with Design of Experiments (DOE)

Design-Ease software, version 6 (DE6) is a powerful, yeteasy-to-use program for experimental design.

A must for anyone wishing to improve a process or aproduct, Design-Ease 6 allows you to screen for vital fac-tors and make breakthrough process improvements.

"Design-Ease is extremely easy to use, flexible andaccurate."

Martin Gibson, Statistician, Jaguar Cars

Design-Ease Features: Powerful, Yet Easy-to-Use

Designed as an entry-level DOE software package,Design-Ease 6 offers features for ease-of-use and func-tionality that you won't find in general statistical pack-ages. You'll discover a wide variety of designs, the flexi-bility to modify designs, unique evaluation capabilities,graphics to simplify interpretation, an intuitive interfaceand a greatly expanded help system.

A Tremendous Variety of Designs Meet All Your Experimental Needs

• Standard two-level full and fractional factorials (up to 256 runs) for testing up to 15 factors simultaneously, with optimal (minimum-aberration) blocking choices*

• General (multilevel) factorial designs (up to 32,000 runs) for categorical factors with mixed levels*

• High-resolution irregular fractions, such as 4 factors in 12 runs

• Taguchi orthogonal arrays*

• Placket-Burman designs for 11, 19, 23, 27 or 31 factors in 12, 20, 24, 28 or 32 runs respectively

Enjoy Incredible Flexibility in DesignModification

• Define your own generators for fractional factorial designs*

• Ignore a row of data while preserving the numbers*

• Add new factors and blocking to existing designs*

• Edit factor names and levels even after a design is created

• Change factors from numeric to categoric and back*

• Fold over one or more factors for any two-level design

• Easily analyze designs with botched or missing data

Evaluate Your Experimental Design withUnique Tools

• Ability to graph any two columns of data on the XY graph (this is a great way to view a block effect)

• Power calculations provide assurance that you

Select your design with the handy design builder. Itgoes up to 15 factors and 128 runs!

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Interactions are revealed graphically. The levelof one factor can change the effect of another- an interaction detected only with DOE.

*New features in Design-Ease, version 6.

can detect effects*

• Get all the details you need on aliases, degrees of freedom, leverage, correlation, etc.

Simplify Interpretation with Terrific Graphics • Discover significant effects at-a-glance with half-normal

or normal probability plots, include points to representestimates of pure error (if available from your design)

• Select effects using Lenth's criteria or probabilityvalues

• See the effects plot in the original scale after transforming the response

• View a complete array of diagnostics graphs to check statistical assumptions and detect possibleoutliers (bonus feature: predicted-versus-actual graphs with a 45º line*)

• See the Box-Cox plot for advice on the best response transformation*

• Graph alternative aliased interactions*

• Generate interactive 2-D contours and rotatable 3-D graphics

• Edit colors, text and more to produce professional reports

Build Confidence with Statistical Analysis of Data • Make substitutions for aliased effects*

• Select optional annotated views for assistance with ANOVA interpretation*

• Inspect F-test values on individual model terms and confidence intervals on coefficients*

Save Time with Design-Ease's Intuitive Interface• Easily maneuver through the program: go down

the tree, through wizards, and across progressive toolbars

• View numerical outputs spreadsheet style

• Cut and paste graphics to your word processor or presentation, or numbers to or from a spreadsheet

• View several graphs simultaneously using the handy pop-out option

Find the Answers to your Questions in theExpanded Help System

• Greatly improved context-sensitive help providesimmediate response*

• Better guidance helps you choose the best model*

• A bonus help section provides "getting started" advice to novices*

• Special user tips offer hints not normally found in a help system*

System Requirements (Network License Available)

• Pentium 200 or higher recommended (minimum 486)

• Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, Win 2000 or XP

• CD-Rom drive (Diskettes available upon request)

• 10 MB hard disk space

• Memory: Win 2000 or XP - 64 MB min., 128 MB rec. Win 98, ME, or NT - 32 MB min., 64 MB rec. Win 95 - 16 MB min., 32 MB rec.

Extras!• Free technical support and limited statistical help

• Outstanding user guide with many helpful tutorialsto illustrate the most powerful features

• 30-day money-back guarantee

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