TABLE II.
Multitier Structure Can Reduce Total Number of Datapoints by Varying Number of Inputs and Outputs at Each Tier but Results in More Experiments Overall. See Example Calculations Using (1)
| Values per | Culture | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Param’s | Param | Outputs | Expts | Datapoints | |
| Single Tier | |||||
| Tier 1 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 243 | 3645 |
| Multi-Tier | |||||
| Tier 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 243 | 486 |
| Tier 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 45 |
| Tier 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Total | 255 | 576 | |||