DOE: Would a "Top-Down" approach converge on the more conventional "Bottoms-Up" factor analysis?
I am a relative newcomer to the use of DOE in R&D: I'd been a long-time skeptic but have recently come to see the HUGE power that it offers, and have embraced JMP as my tool of choice. In the process of learning how to apply DOE methodologies, I've come to think of its preferred implementation as a sort of "bottoms-up" approach: we start by identifying ALL the factors that might contribute to a me...