“…This is important, as it was experimentally observed that level change to a factor can alter other responses with synergistic or antagonistic effect, which it was not possible to assess with univariate studies (Weinert et al, 2008;Breitkreitz et al, 2014). Therefore, factorial design has been used in a diversified way such as in the analysis of metals (Pereira Filho et al, 2002), plants (Marques et al, 2012;Souza and Sena, 2012), and soils (Dolatto et al, 2012). Although there are few results of response surface application, using this tool, it was possible to find the optimum conditions for: (i) extrusion of soybean bran (Barros et al, 1987), (ii) spectrophotometric determination in pharmaceutical formulations (Weinert et al, 2008), and (iii) fruit productivity and quality because of the use of fertilizers (Mattos et al, 2004).…”