In Design of Experiments, blocking involves recognizing uncontrolled factors and ensuring as wide a spread across these factors.
Confounding occurs when you can’t distinguish the effects of certain factor interactions because of other potential factor effects.
Design of Experiments is a way to intelligently form decision frameworks on how to improve a process. This is done by determine what factors into a process.
Design of Experiments Terminology can be daunting! Here’s an easy glossary to reference when working with these types of questions.
Factorial Design Overview covers one of the key issues in designing an experiment: identifying as many influences on the results as possible.