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Nov 8, 2010 - DOI: 10.1021/cen-v065n041.ifc. Publication Date: October 12, 1987. Copyright © 1987 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. ACS Chem...
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Improve response after only a few experiments using this unique design strategy

Sequential Simplex Optimization An Audio Course Produced by the American Chemical Society Learn how to improve experimental processes and methods and decrease project development time. Work more efficiently and effectively. Be able to provide optimized processes for statistical process control and learn how this can save you money. This ACS Audio Course will give you a sound understanding of the techniques and strategies necessary to enable you to do all this! This highly efficient experimental design strategy, called sequential simplex, does not involve detailed mathematical or statistical analysis of experimental results. Calculation and logic are simple and can be done by hand on a worksheet. A computer is not necessary! Sequential simplex optimization is an alternate evolutionary operation (EVOP) technique that is not based on traditional factorial designs. This technique can be used to optimize several factors—not just two or three—in a single study. And since most research and development projects require the optimization of system response, e.g., maximum product yield in a chemical reaction, this course will show you how to use the techniques that can improve your results. Special feature! This unique course includes an instructional computer diskette that assists with the laboratory exercises and problems. While you learn how to successfully calculate values, the computer program provides answers to exercises, showing you where your calculations are wrong and suggesting values to use in further calculations.

Unit (Catalog No. 97) Five cassettes (4.6 hours playing time), 200-page manual, and IBM PC diskette: $465.00, U.S. & Canada; $558.00, export. Additional manuals: $35.00 each, U.S. & Canada; $42.00 each, export. Additional diskettes: $28.00 each, U.S. & Canada; $34.00 each, export. No-Risk Guarantee All ACS Audio Courses come to you with a money-back guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied, return the course within ten days for a full refund or cancellation of invoice. Use the coupon below to place your order or CALL TOLL FREE 800-227-5558 and use your credit card or purchase order number. To help us serve you better, please quote Department 90 when you place your order.

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Your Instructors Stanley N. Deming is Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston. He was previously with Emory University, Atlanta, and with the Analytical Chemistry Section, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

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Stephen L. Morgan is Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of South Carolina. His current research interests involve chemometrics. Course Outline • Introduction • Research and Development • Alternate Approaches to Research and Development • Additional Considerations • Systems Theory • Response Surface Methodology • Laboratory Exercise Number 1 • The Single-Factor-at-a-Time Optimization Theory • Alternative Optimization Strategies • The Sequential Optimization Strategy • Laboratory Exercise Number 2 • Discussion of Lab Exercise 2 • Further Considerations • The Variable-Size Simplex • Laboratory Exercise Number 3 • Discussion of Lab Exercise 3 • The Initial Simplex • Final Considerations

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