Response surface methodology

Short description: Statistical approach

Designed experiments with full factorial design (left), response surface with second-degree polynomial (right)

In statistics, response surface methodology (RSM) explores the relationships between several explanatory variables and one or more response variables. RSM is an empirical model which employs the use of mathematical and statistical techniques to relate input variables, otherwise known as factors, to the response. RSM became very useful because other methods available, such as the theoretical model, could be very cumbersome to use, time-consuming, inefficient, error-prone, and unreliable. The method was introduced by George E. P. Box and K. B. Wilson in 1951. The main idea of RSM is to use a sequence of designed experiments to obtain an optimal response. Box and Wilson suggest using a second-degree polynomial model to do this. They acknowledge that this model is only an approximation, but they use it because such a model is easy to estimate and apply, even when little is known about the process.

Statistical approaches such as RSM can be employed to maximize the production of a special substance by optimization of operational factors. Of late, for formulation optimization, the RSM, using proper design of experiments (DoE), has become extensively used.[1] In contrast to conventional methods, the interaction among process variables can be determined by statistical techniques.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Basic approach of response surface methodology
* 2 Important RSM properties and features
* 3 Special geometries
* 3.1 Cube
* 3.2 Sphere
* 3.3 Simplex geometry and mixture experiments
* 4 Extensions
* 4.1 Multiple objective functions
* 5 Practical concerns
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 7.1 Historical
* 8 External links

## Basic approach of response surface methodology

An easy way to estimate a first-degree polynomial model is to use a factorial experiment or a fractional factorial design. This is sufficient to determine which explanatory variables affect the response variable(s) of interest. Once it is suspected that only significant explanatory variables are left, then a more complicated design, such as a central composite design can be implemented to estimate a second-degree polynomial model, which is still only an approximation at best. However, the second-degree model can be used to optimize (maximize, minimize, or attain a specific target for) the response variable(s) of interest.

## Important RSM properties and features

Orthogonality
The property that allows individual effects of the k-factors to be estimated independently without (or with minimal) confounding. Also orthogonality provides minimum variance estimates of the model coefficient so that they are uncorrelated.
Rotatability
The property of rotating points of the design about the center of the factor space. The moments of the distribution of the design points are constant.
Uniformity
A third property of CCD designs used to control the number of center points is uniform precision (or Uniformity).

## Special geometries

### Cube

Cubic designs are discussed by Kiefer, by Atkinson, Donev, and Tobias and by Hardin and Sloane.

### Sphere

Spherical designs are discussed by Kiefer and by Hardin and Sloane.

### Simplex geometry and mixture experiments

Mixture experiments are discussed in many books on the design of experiments, and in the response-surface methodology textbooks of Box and Draper and of Atkinson, Donev and Tobias. An extensive discussion and survey appears in the advanced textbook by John Cornell.

## Extensions

### Multiple objective functions

Some extensions of response surface methodology deal with the multiple response problem. Multiple response variables create difficulty because what is optimal for one response may not be optimal for other responses. Other extensions are used to reduce variability in a single response while targeting a specific value, or attaining a near maximum or minimum while preventing variability in that response from getting too large.

## Practical concerns

Response surface methodology uses statistical models, and therefore practitioners need to be aware that even the best statistical model is an approximation to reality. In practice, both the models and the parameter values are unknown, and subject to uncertainty on top of ignorance. Of course, an estimated optimum point need not be optimum in reality, because of the errors of the estimates and of the inadequacies of the model.

Nonetheless, response surface methodology has an effective track-record of helping researchers improve products and services: For example, Box's original response-surface modeling enabled chemical engineers to improve a process that had been stuck at a saddle-point for years. The engineers had not been able to afford to fit a cubic three-level design to estimate a quadratic model, and their biased linear-models estimated the gradient to be zero. Box's design reduced the costs of experimentation so that a quadratic model could be fit, which led to a (long-sought) ascent direction.[3][4]

## See also

* Box–Behnken design
* Central composite design
* Gradient-enhanced kriging (GEK)
* IOSO method based on response-surface methodology
* Optimal designs
* Plackett–Burman design
* Polynomial and rational function modeling
* Polynomial regression
* Probabilistic design
* Surrogate model
* Bayesian Optimization

## References

1. ↑ Karmoker, J.R.; Hasan, I.; Ahmed, N.; Saifuddin, M.; Reza, M.S. (2019). "Development and Optimization of Acyclovir Loaded Mucoadhesive Microspheres by Box -Behnken Design". Dhaka University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 18 (1): 1–12. doi:10.3329/dujps.v18i1.41421.
2. ↑ Asadi, Nooshin; Zilouei, Hamid (March 2017). "Optimization of organosolv pretreatment of rice straw for enhanced biohydrogen production using Enterobacter aerogenes". Bioresource Technology 227: 335–344. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.073. PMID 28042989. Bibcode: 2017BiTec.227..335A. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311881656.
3. ↑ Box & Wilson 1951
4. ↑ Improving Almost Anything: Ideas and Essays, Revised Edition (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) George E. P. Box

* Box, G.E.P.; Wilson, K.B. (1951). "On the Experimental Attainment of Optimum Conditions". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 13 (1): 1–45. doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1951.tb00067.x.
* Box, G. E. P. and Draper, Norman. 2007. Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses, Second Edition [of Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces, 1987], Wiley.
* Atkinson, A.C.; Donev, A.N.; Tobias, R.D. (2007). Optimum Experimental Designs, with SAS. Oxford University Press. pp. 511+xvi. ISBN 978-0-19-929660-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=oIHsrw6NBmoC.
* Cornell, John (2002). Experiments with Mixtures: Designs, Models, and the Analysis of Mixture Data (third ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-07916-3.

* Goos, Peter] (2002). The Optimal Design of Blocked and Split-plot Experiments. Lecture Notes in Statistics. 164. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-95515-5. http://users.telenet.be/peter.goos/springer.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
* Kiefer, Jack Carl (1985). L. D. Brown. ed. Jack Carl Kiefer Collected Papers III Design of Experiments. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-96004-3.
* Pukelsheim, Friedrich (2006). Optimal Design of Experiments. SIAM. ISBN 978-0-89871-604-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZcfDZUJ4F8C.
* Hardin, R.H.; Sloane, N.J.A. (1993). "A New Approach to the Construction of Optimal Designs". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 37 (3): 339–369. doi:10.1016/0378-3758(93)90112-J. http://neilsloane.com/doc/Me175.pdf.
* Hardin, R.H.; Sloane, N.J.A.. "Computer-Generated Minimal (and Larger) Response Surface Designs: (I) The Sphere". http://neilsloane.com/doc/doeh.pdf.
* Hardin, R.H.; Sloane, N.J.A.. "Computer-Generated Minimal (and Larger) Response Surface Designs: (II) The Cube". http://neilsloane.com/doc/meatball.pdf.
* Ghosh, S.; Rao, C. R., eds (1996). Design and Analysis of Experiments. Handbook of Statistics. 13. North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-444-82061-7.
* Draper, Norman; Lin, Dennis K.J. (1996). "11 Response surface designs". Response surface designs. Handbook of Statistics. 13. pp. 343–375. doi:10.1016/S0169-7161(96)13013-3. ISBN 9780444820617. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169716196130133.
* Gaffke, Norbert; Heiligers, Berthold (1996). "30 Approximate designs for polynomial regression: Invariance, admissibility, and optimality". Approximate designs for polynomial regression: Invariance, admissibility, and optimality. Handbook of Statistics. 13. pp. 1149–99. doi:10.1016/S0169-7161(96)13032-7. ISBN 9780444820617. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169716196130327.

### Historical

* Gergonne, J. D. (1974). "The application of the method of least squares to the interpolation of sequences". Historia Mathematica 1 (4): 439–447. doi:10.1016/0315-0860(74)90034-2.
* Stigler, Stephen M. (1974). "Gergonne's 1815 paper on the design and analysis of polynomial regression experiments". Historia Mathematica 1 (4): 431–9. doi:10.1016/0315-0860(74)90033-0.

* Peirce, C. S. (1876). "Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research". Coast Survey Report Appendix No. 14: 197–201. http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cgs/001_pdf/CSC-0025.PDF#page=222.
* Reprinted in  Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. 7. 1958. paragraphs 139–157,
* and in Peirce, C. S. (July–August 1967). "Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research". Operations Research 15 (4): 643–8. doi:10.1287/opre.15.4.643.
* Smith, Kirstine (1918). "On the Standard Deviations of Adjusted and Interpolated Values of an Observed Polynomial Function and its Constants and the Guidance They Give Towards a Proper Choice of the Distribution of the Observations". Biometrika 12 (1/2): 1–85. doi:10.2307/2331929. https://zenodo.org/record/1431591.

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