This part of ISO 3534 defines the terms used in the field of design of experiments and may be used in the drafting of other International Standards.

More specifically, it defines terms used in the field of design of experiments for which the response variable is one-dimensional and continuous and for which the expectation of the response variable is linear in the parameters. The terms with regard to the statistical analysis are based on the assumption that the error term follows a normal distribution with constant variance.