Fraction of Design Space Plots for Assessing Mixture and Mixture-Process Designs

Variance dispersion graphs are useful tools for evaluating various types of designs, including mixture and mixture-process designs. They allow an experimenter to see patterns of scaled prediction variances (SPV) throughout a design space. We introduce a complementary fraction of design space (FDS) plot that provides additional information on the distribution of the SPV throughout a design space. These plots display the fraction of design space where the SPV is less than or equal to specific values. The FDS plots for combined mixture-process experiments also show which of the two types of variables has more influence on the SPV. The FDS plots for mixture and mixture-process experiments are developed and then demonstrated with several examples.