10071 IUPAC Gold Book - experimental design 10.1351/goldbook.10071 10071 current initialism: DoE synonym: design of experiments 1 Efficient procedure for planning combinations of values of factors in experiments so that the data obtained can be analyzed to yield valid and objective conclusions. Experimental design is applied to determine the set of conditions that are required to obtain a product or process with desirable, often optimal properties. A characteristic of experimental design is that these conditions are determined in a statistically-optimal way. Response surface methodology is considered an important part of experimental design. An "experimental design" (noun) usually refers to a table giving the levels of each factor for each run. Response surface methodology https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10082 coded experimental design https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10067 PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 414 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10071/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10071/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10071/plain Citation: 'experimental design' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10071 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-09T11:46:39+00:00