“…Park, Mancenido & Montgomery (
2019); Johnson & Montgomery (
2009); Mancenido et al . (
2019) and many others before them take a classic optimal design approach in response surface methodology (Box & Wilson
1951) employing a holistic metric of the estimation of all design parameters via
‐optimality or other classic metrics of optimality (Myers, Myers & Carter Jr
1994). The design problem in these works are different than in our setting, as they study the situation where the
s could be determined by the experimenter.…”