%0 Journal Article %T An Improved Robust Regression Model for Response Surface Methodology %A Edionwe %A Efosa %A Ekhosuehi %A N. %A Mbegbu %A J. I. %A Obiora-Ilouno %A H. O. %J - %D 2018 %R 10.17535/crorr.2018.0025 %X Sa£żetak In production, manufacturing and several other allied industries, appropriate tool is applied in the analysis of data in order to enhance the opportunity for product and process optimization. A statistical tool that has successfully been used to achieve this goal is Response Surface Methodology (RSM). A recent trend in the modeling phase of RSM involves the use of semi-parametric regression models which are hybrids of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and the Local Linear Regression (LLR) models. In this paper, we propose a modification in the current structure of the semi-parametric Model Robust Regression 2 (MRR2) with a view to improving its sensitivity to local trends and patterns in data. The proposed model is applied to two multiple response optimization problems from the literature. The results of goodness-of-fits and optimal solutions confirm that the proposed model performs better than the MRR2 %K desirability function %K genetic algorithm %K local linear regression %K multiple response optimization problem %K semi-parametric regression models %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=310575