practitioners and students Textbooks emphasizing regression and response-surface methodology The textbook by Atkinson, Donev and Tobias has been used for short courses for industrial practitioners as well as university courses. Textbooks emphasizing block designs Optimal block designs are discussed by Bailey and by Bapat. The first chapter of Bapat's book reviews the linear algebra used by Bailey (or the advanced books below). Bailey's exercises and discussion of randomization both emphasize statistical concepts (rather than algebraic computations). Draft available on-line. (Especially Chapter 11.8 "Optimality") (Chapter 5 "Block designs and optimality", pages 99–111) Optimal block designs are discussed in the advanced monograph by Shah and Sinha and in the survey-articles by Cheng and by Majumdar. Books for professional statisticians and researchers Republication with errata-list and new preface of Wiley (0-471-61971-X) 1993 Articles and chapters Historical (Appendix No. 14). NOAA PDF Eprint. Reprinted in paragraphs 139–157, and in Design of experiments Regression analysis Statistical theory Optimal decisions Mathematical optimization Industrial engineering Systems engineering Statistical process control