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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]
comment A neologism is a made up word or phrase and as best I can tell "Multifactor design of experiments software" is made up as a topic. A search returns nothing but WP and mirrors, and the ref or external links seem to have nothing on it, so as a topic it gets no mention anywhere and is therefore completely un-notable.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 16:23, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There is a misunderstanding here. "Multifactor design of experiments software" is not a neologism, it is a description (and not a particularly good one) of a topic of statistical interest. This is made clear when the article starts "Software for the design of multifactor experiments". Here[1] would be a better search and there are other appropriate wordings too. I am not well qualified to judge the article which I find a bit thin when it gets to the point and more references would be helpful. However, as a topic, it certainly deserves a place. Thincat (talk) 17:27, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep It is not a neologism. Design of experiments is a statistical method, which is used amongst others in Six Sigma and is detailed here: Design of Expriments. DOE comes in two types, Single DOE and Multi DOE. So software that create mulitfactor DOE statistical models is perfectly acceptable. scope_creep (talk) 18:53, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]