Uniform designs for mixture-amount experiments and for mixture experiments under order restrictions

Abstract

With order statistics of the uniform distribution on [0, l], exponential and beta distributions, a stochastic representation is obtained for the uniform distribution over various domains, where A-type domains are closely associated with reliability growth analysis, order restricted statistical inference and isotonic regression theory, V-type domains are connected with the mixture-amount experiments, and T-type domains are well related to mixture experiments. With these stochastic representations, the corresponding uniform distribution and number-theoretic nets can be generated. This approach seems to be new and is called order statistics method. Some examples on reliability growth analysis and experimental design are presented.