In life science, biopharma and other areas of research, development and production, design of experiments (DOE) provides a systematic method to determine cause and effect relationships between factors and responses affecting a process, product or analytical system. But the key to understanding your results is effective analysis of your experimental data.
Principal component analysis, or PCA, is a statistical procedure that allows you to summarize the information content in large data tables by means of a smaller set of “summary indices” that can be more easily visualized and analyzed. The underlying data can be measurements describing properties of production samples, chemical compounds or reactions, process time points of a continuous process, batches from a batch process, biological individuals or trials of a DOE-protocol, for example.
