This is a function to simulate a black box process for teaching the use of designed experiments. The optimal factor settings can be found using a sequential assembly strategy i.e. apply a 2^k factorial design first, calculate the path of the steepest ascent, again apply a 2^k factorial design and augment a star portion to find the optimal factor settings. Of course other strategies are possible.
Usage
simProc(x1, x2, x3, noise = TRUE)
Arguments
x1
numeric vector containing the values for factor 1.
x2
numeric vector containing the values for factor 2.
x3
numeric vector containing the values for factor 3.
noise
logical value deciding whether noise should be added or not. Default setting is FALSE.
Value
simProc returns a numeric value within the range [0,1].
Details
factor 1 is best within [40, 250]; factor 2 within [90, 240]