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How to set up experimental design for 3 factors at 4 differentlevels. I get in total I should end up with 81 experimental runs.Can you help me to determine how to distribute these 4 levelsacross 3 factors?

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How to set up experimental design for 3 factors at 4 different levels. I get in total I should end up with 81 experimental runs. Can you help me to determine how to distribute these 4 levels across 3 factors?

I understand that your design is of 43 = 4*4*4 (3 factors each at 4 levels). In this case if you are doing a full factorial design than you’ll have 64 factor combinations. ( not 81).

Let A,B,C be the 3 factors and 1,2,3,4 be the four levels

Then the actor combinations are:

1

A1

B1

C1

2

A1

B1

C2

3

A1

B1

C3

4

A1

B1

C4

5

A1

B2

C1

6

A1

B2

C2

7

A1

B2

C3

8

A1

B2

C4

9

A1

B3

C1

10

A1

B3

C2

11

A1

B3

C3

12

A1

B3

C4

13

A1

B4

C1

14

A1

B4

C2

15

A1

B4

C3

16

A1

B4

C4

17

A2

B1

C1

18

A2

B1

C2

19

A2

B1

C3

20

A2

B1

C4

21

A2

B2

C1

22

A2

B2

C2

23

A2

B2

C3

24

A2

B2

C4

25

A2

B3

C1

26

A2

B3

C2

27

A2

B3

C3

28

A2

B3

C4

29

A2

B4

C1

30

A2

B4

C2

31

A2

B4

C3

32

A2

B4

C4

33

A3

B1

C1

34

A3

B1

C2

35

A3

B1

C3

36

A3

B1

C4

37

A3

B2

C1

38

A3

B2

C2

39

A3

B2

C3

40

A3

B2

C4

41

A3

B3

C1

42

A3

B3

C2

43

A3

B3

C3

44

A3

B3

C4

45

A3

B4

C1

46

A3

B4

C2

47

A3

B4

C3

48

A3

B4

C4

49

A4

B1

C1

50

A4

B1

C2

51

A4

B1

C3

52

A4

B1

C4

53

A4

B2

C1

54

A4

B2

C2

55

A4

B2

C3

56

A4

B2

C4

57

A4

B3

C1

58

A4

B3

C2

59

A4

B3

C3

60

A4

B3

C4

61

A4

B4

C1

62

A4

B4

C2

63

A4

B4

C3

64

A4

B4

C4


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