In experimental economics, where subjects participate in different sessions, observations across subjects of a given session might exhibit more correlation than observations across subjects in different sessions. The main goal of this paper is to clarify what are session-effects: what can cause...

For any given manufacturing system, the initial setting of the process target is critical in preventing excessive product rejection and rework costs. Often referred to as the 'process target problem', the traditional approach relies first on the assumption of certain values for the process mean...

We introduce a canonical representative for the isomorphism classes of non-regular orthogonal arrays based on the generalized wordlength patterns (GWLP) of delete-one-factor projections. These GWLP values have been used recently to introduce a fast isomorphism test for two-level regular arrays....

This article examines the estimation of two-stage clustered designs for education randomized control trials (RCTs) using the nonparametric Neyman causal inference framework that underlies experiments. The key distinction between the considered causal models is whether potential treatment and...

This article demonstrates that socially anxious consumers avoid close relationships with merchants. An experimental approach (n=102) shows that socially anxious consumers prefer small talk with merchants rather than intimate conversations, whereas non-socially anxious consumers prefer intimate...

In this paper, we examine how the geometry underlying revealed preference determines the set of preferences that can be revealed by choices. Specifically, given an arbitrary binary relation defined on a finite set, we ask if and when there exists a data set which can generate the given relation...

The embedded power systems are nowadays developing at high pace. Hybrid-electric vehicles, full-electric vehicles, airplanes, ships, high-speed trains, all share a common point – the embedded electrical power system. This paper aims to present an optimization methodology of a fuzzy-logic...

This paper proposes, implements, and evaluates an original discretization method for estimating the reliability of systems for which stress and strength are defined as complex functions of continuous random variables, when reliability is not derivable through common analytic techniques. This...

Quadratic loss functions have been used extensively within the context of quality engineering and experimental design for process and product optimisation and robust design. In general, this approach determines optimal parameter settings based on minimising the sum of individual or mean loss of...