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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge advice given by the late Mr Harvey Dicks on the statistical analysis. Dr John Rowlands made some amendments to the version prepared by the authors to emphasise various aspects of the design and statistical analysis of factorial experiments to allow the case study to be used as a teaching aid.