This is funny. It reminds me of when I was asked to help design a study, and I told the researcher I was upset to be involved in the design. Why? Because the #1 thing that statisticians like to say is, “Sorry, the analysis is really difficult because you screwed up the design.” So, if you ask me to help with the design, I lose my best alibi!
“Well, you didn’t really pay me enough money to do it correctly.”
Are there any good books on experimental design from a decision theory perspective? For example, I am interested in learning how to decide on the optimal sampling of a product stream for quality control where testing or sampling might be expensive.
Box, Hunter, and Hunter?
That looks good; thank you very much.