JMP 13 Design of Experiments Guide, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Overview of Definitive Screening Design

Investigators use screening designs when they want to identify the factors that have the most substantial effects on a response. A screening design enables you to study a large number of factors in a fairly small experiment.

Many standard screening designs focus on estimating main effects. Definitive screening designs offer advantages over standard screening designs. They avoid confounding of effects and can identify factors having a nonlinear effect on the response. For details about the advantages and construction of definitive screening designs, see Jones and Nachtsheim (2011).

For designs containing only continuous factors, compare these properties of definitive screening designs versus standard screening ...