System and method for automating scientific and engineering experimentation for deriving surrogate response data
First Claim
1. An automated system for reducing inherent data loss associated with experimentation comprising:
- an automated experimentation platform (AEP) for automating one or more experimentation processes;
a generalized exchange module (GEM) for automating data exchanges between said AEP and one or more target applications and for enabling the data exchanges to be generic with one or more attached components including any of instrumentation, device, software application or ICP; and
a means for selectively predetermining study factors for said experimentation, wherein one or more unique surrogate response data sets are derived from said experimentation, wherein said one or more unique surrogate response data sets each have primary characteristics that include being numerically analyzable, being readily or directly obtainable when the inherent data loss occurs, being a response value for an experiment trial, and providing information on effects of changes made to said study factors.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for automatically deriving unique surrogate response data from experiment results in which inherent data loss occurs in a sufficient number of the samples to disallow quantitative effects estimation at the experimenter'"'"'s desired level of confidence for statistical significance. In part, the unique surrogate response data sets of the present invention have one or more of four primary characteristics including: each is numerically analyzable; each may be readily or directly obtained when inherent data loss occurs; each provides a response value for an experiment trial; and each provides information on the effect of a change made to the process or system that would have been obtainable if the experiment samples had had no inherent data loss.
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18 Claims
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1. An automated system for reducing inherent data loss associated with experimentation comprising:
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an automated experimentation platform (AEP) for automating one or more experimentation processes; a generalized exchange module (GEM) for automating data exchanges between said AEP and one or more target applications and for enabling the data exchanges to be generic with one or more attached components including any of instrumentation, device, software application or ICP; and a means for selectively predetermining study factors for said experimentation, wherein one or more unique surrogate response data sets are derived from said experimentation, wherein said one or more unique surrogate response data sets each have primary characteristics that include being numerically analyzable, being readily or directly obtainable when the inherent data loss occurs, being a response value for an experiment trial, and providing information on effects of changes made to said study factors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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