Building the Grammar of Experimental Designs

In linguistics, the grammar is a system of rules that govern how words are combined to create coherent sentences. By having a shared understanding of words and these rules, we can construct a vast array of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words. In a similar vein, I proposed a computational framework, which I refer to as "the grammar of experimental designs", aimed at constructing a diverse range of experimental designs ("sentences") using only a few key functions ("words"). In this talk, I will explain about this grammar (as detailed in the recent preprint) and demonstrate its utility through the implementation in R as the edibble package (described in the working paper). The edibble package is publicly available on CRAN with the latest development on GitHub. Where time permits, I will share some of the difficulties and mistakes I made along the way in building this system and future directions/developments to come.