FAQ
Original question from a Senior R&D Chemist:
“I’ve started watching the recordings of your workshop on Mixture Design for Optimal Formulations, which I’m attending asynchronously.
“In our case, we are preparing material formulations and conducting tests to determine their properties (mechanical properties such as stress at break, elastic modulus, and elongation at break).
“We already have a year of experience, tests, and results that could be used as responses in the software. Would it be more appropriate to use these results to develop a model that fits the existing data, or is there another recommended approach? Additionally, what format is used to download our results?”
Answer:
I suggest that before designing your first mixture experiment, you enter existing results via our Import tool. Do so via copy/paste from a spreadsheet—Excel or the like. For a brief demo (less than 5 minutes), see this YouTube ‘mini-tutorial’. Learn how to make the most from your imported results by watching my presentation on Evaluating and Exploiting Existing Data (gold or garbage?).
(Learn more about modeling results from mixture experiments by enrolling in the Mixture Design for Optimal Formulations public workshop. If the scheduled time doesn’t work for you, ask about how to take it asynchronously like this questioner!)
