William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States. Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. He worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1934 to 1939, when he moved to the United States.Gertrude Mary Cox was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University.

• Methods for Increasing the Accuracy of Experiments. Notes on the Statistical Analysis of the Results. Completely Randomized, Randomized Block, and Latin SquareDesigns. Factorial Experiments. Confounding. Factorial Experiments in Fractional Replication. Factorial Experiments with Main Effects Confounded: Split-PlotDesigns. Factorial Experiments Confounded in Quasi-Latin Squares. Some Methods for the Study of Response Surfaces. Incomplete Block Designs. Lattice Designs. Balanced and Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs. Lattice Squares. Incomplete Latin Squares. Analysis of the Results of a Series of Experiments. Random Permutations of 9 and 16 Numbers. Selected Bibliography. List of Author References. Tables of t and F. Index.