Taguchi's Design

OBJECTIVE: This chapter intends to make the reader familiar with the basics of the Taguchi design of experimentation, which is very popular in the field of biological systems. The reader can better understand the basic principles based on which the Taguchi design works, along with its advantages and the disadvantages compared to other experimental and non-experimental statistical techniques popularly used to optimize biological systems. In addition, the reader may be able to design a Taguchi design of experiment to optimize any appropriate system and interpret the results of a system, which has been analyzed using the Taguchi design. The intention is to give the reader a good interest to look into this design option when needed in practice.