{"id":4658,"date":"2026-08-12T16:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellistat.com\/?post_type=guide-dutilisateur&#038;p=4658"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:59:38","slug":"response-surface","status":"publish","type":"guide-dutilisateur","link":"https:\/\/ellistat.com\/en\/guide-dutilisateur\/surface-de-reponse\/","title":{"rendered":"Response surface methodology (RSM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the page for the&nbsp;<strong>full quadratic modeling<\/strong>&nbsp;: linear effects, interactions, and squares. This method alone makes it possible to locate an optimum within the domain and estimate its position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/ellistat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellistat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface.png 644w, https:\/\/ellistat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/ellistat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/surface-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The factors must be\u00a0<strong>quantitative<\/strong>, the page displays \u00abFactors must be quantitative\u00bb if a value is not numeric, and their number is\u00a0<strong>limited to 6<\/strong>. Beyond that, no tables are provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Available tables<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><td><strong>Table<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>What She Is<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Quality<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>composite<\/strong><\/td><td>Centered composite design: factorial, star-shaped, and central points. The standard.<\/td><td>*****<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Behnken Box<\/strong><\/td><td>Edge centers of the domain. Avoid simultaneous extreme combinations.<\/td><td>***<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Hoke D1 \/ D4 \/ D6<\/strong><\/td><td>Economic designs with a small number of trials.<\/td><td>****<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Hybrid A \/ B<\/strong><\/td><td>Very cost-effective plans for 3 and 4 factors.<\/td><td>***<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>DSD3 \u2026 DSD8<\/strong><\/td><td>Definitive Screening Designs, used here in modeling.<\/td><td>****<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list depends on the number of factors: composite and Hoke designs with 2 factors; DSD, hybrid, and Box-Behnken designs with 3 and 4 factors; and Hoke and Box-Behnken designs with 5 and 6 factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udca1&nbsp;<strong>Box-Behnken rather than composite<\/strong>&nbsp;when extreme combinations are impossible or dangerous: maximum temperature&nbsp;<strong>and<\/strong>&nbsp;maximum pressure at the same time. Box-Behnken never visits two extremes simultaneously, whereas the composite method even goes beyond the boundaries of the cube (or hypercube) with its star-shaped points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. The two composite settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The composite view, and only the composite view, displays two settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Number of central points<\/strong>\u00a0; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cube-to-Sphere Ratio<\/strong>\u00a0(\u03b1): the distance of the points in the star, in coded units. When \u03b1 = 1, the star is placed on the faces of the cube; when \u03b1 &gt; 1, it is placed beyond the cube.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ellistat calculates and&nbsp;<strong>displays the default values<\/strong>&nbsp;below the fields, recalculated each time the number of factors changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><td><strong>Factors<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Cube-to-Sphere Ratio<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>2<\/td><td>5<\/td><td>1,414<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>6<\/td><td>1,682<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4<\/td><td>7<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>6<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>9<\/td><td>2,28<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u26a0\ufe0f These values provide a plan\u00a0<strong>rotation-invariant<\/strong>\u00a0: The prediction accuracy depends only on the distance from the center, not on the direction. It is acceptable to adjust these parameters\u2014in particular, setting \u03b1 to 1 when the star-shaped points would extend beyond the physically feasible domain\u2014but doing so causes us to lose this property, and the accuracy becomes better in some directions than in others.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":80,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"menu-guide-dutilisateur":[24],"class_list":["post-4658","guide-dutilisateur","type-guide-dutilisateur","status-publish","hentry","menu-guide-dutilisateur-7-doe-plans-dexperiences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Surface de r\u00e9ponse - Ellistat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mod\u00e9lisez interactions et courbure, trouvez l&#039;optimum de votre process avec un plan composite, Box-Behnken ou Hoke, adapt\u00e9s \u00e0 vos contraintes de domaine.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ellistat.com\/en\/users-guide\/response-surface\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Surface de r\u00e9ponse - 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