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Multifactor design of experiments software

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Seems like a neologism, though it's unclear as it's not explained what exactly the topic is, with POV and editoralising in place of proper encyclopaedic content. Not clear from the references either that there's a topic here. JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 09:56, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and consider starting again. I'm sure we could write a decent article on algorithms for experimental design, including their software implementations. But this is not it. Most of the article simply recaps the basic ideas of experimental design, with just three or four sentences mentioning software at the end, and they are mostly puffery. --Avenue (talk) 14:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't understand the "neologism" comment. "Multifactor design of experiments" is obviously not a neologism. Can "software for X" be considered a "neologism" if X is some standard thing, and software can be applied to doing X? The problem with the article in its present form is that it doesn't say much about the software. Presumably that could be remedied by adding the information and otherwise adapting the article to Wikipedia's usages. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:52, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]