Response Surface Methodology and its application in evaluating scientific activity

Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras (), Daniel Torres-Salinas, Rafael Bailón Moreno, Rosario Ruiz Baños and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
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Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras: Universidad de Granada
Daniel Torres-Salinas: Universidad de Granada
Rafael Bailón Moreno: Universidad de Granada
Rosario Ruiz Baños: Universidad de Granada
Emilio Delgado López-Cózar: Universidad de Granada

Scientometrics, 2009, vol. 79, issue 1, No 14, 218 pages

Abstract: Abstract The possibilities of the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) has been explored within the ambit of Scientific Activity Analysis. The case of the system “Departments of the Area of Health Sciences of the University of Navarre (Spain)” has been studied in relation to the system “Scientific Community in the Health Sciences”, from the perspective of input/output models (factors/response). It is concluded that the RSM reveals the causal relationships between factors and responses through the construction of polynomial mathematical models. Similarly, quasiexperimental designs are proposed, these permitting scientific activity to be analysed with minimum effort and cost and high accuracy.

Date: 2009
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