Response-Surface Analysis
Overview
Provides functions to generate response-surface designs, fit first- and second-order response-surface models, make surface plots, obtain the path of steepest ascent, and do canonical analysis. A good reference on these methods is Chapter 10 of Wu, C-F J and Hamada, M (2009) "Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Parameter Design Optimization" ISBN 978-0-471-69946-0. An early version of the package is documented in Journal of Statistical Software doi:10.18637/jss.v032.i07.
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Documentation
- Help pages
- 15includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
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- Exported functions with examples
- 86%
- Documented parameters
- 91%
- Return-value docs
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- Help pages citing references
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Dependencies
Installing rsm adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 292 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: estimability 292 KB.
Code & Tests
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Maintainer since 1.0 (2008)
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- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2008-12-01
- Total releases
- 31 / 18 yrs
- License
- GPL (>= 2) OSI
- Download size
- 741 KB
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