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 that produces one or more unique surrogate response data sets, the system comprising:
- an automated experimentation platform (AEP) for automating one or more experimentation processes;
a generalized exchange module (GEM) for automating data exchanges between the AEP and target applications and for enabling the data exchanges to be generic with one or more attached components; and
a software application for setting one or more results characteristics in response to controllable settings of predetermined study factors and obtaining one or more results data sets from a data source of the system to produce the one or more unique surrogate response data sets that are obtainable when the inherent data loss occurs.
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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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1. An automated system for reducing inherent data loss associated with experimentation that produces one or more unique surrogate response data sets, the system 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 the AEP and target applications and for enabling the data exchanges to be generic with one or more attached components; and a software application for setting one or more results characteristics in response to controllable settings of predetermined study factors and obtaining one or more results data sets from a data source of the system to produce the one or more unique surrogate response data sets that are obtainable when the inherent data loss occurs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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