I-optimal mixture designs

Peter Goos (), Bradley Jones and Utami Syafitri

Working Papers from University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics

Abstract: In mixture experiments, the factors under study are proportions of the ingredients of a mixture. The special nature of the factors in a mixture experiment necessitates specific types of regression models, and specific types of experimental designs. Although mixture experiments usually are intended to predict the response(s) for all possible formulations of the mixture and to identify optimal proportions for each of the ingredients, little research has been done concerning their I-optimal design. This is surprising given that I-optimal designs minimize the average variance of prediction and, therefore, seem more appropriate for mixture experiments than the commonly used D-optimal designs, which focus on a precise model estimation rather than precise predictions. In this paper, we provide the first detailed overview of the literature on the I-optimal design of mixture experiments and identify several contradictions. For the second-order, special cubic and the degree models, we present I-optimal continuous designs and contrast them with the published results. We also study exact I-optimal designs, and compare them in detail to continuous I-optimal designs and to D-optimal designs. One striking result of our work is that the performance of D-optimal designs in terms of the I-optimality criterion very strongly depends on which of the D-optimal design points are replicated.

Keywords: D-optimality; IV-optimality; Moments matrix; Q-optimality; Simplex-lattice designs; Simplex-centroid designs; V-optimality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2013-12
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