1. Tom Boardman
2. Eileen Boardman
3. Terri Crosby
4. Veronica Czitrom
5. Lynne Hare
6. Roger Hoerl
7. Bob Mason
8. Innis Sande
9. Joe Skwish
10. Joe Voelkel
9. V. Czitrom E-mail copy of Continuing. Ed. tactical plan to Joe Voelkel
10. Roger Hoerl E-mail copy of ASQC Stat Div. tactical plan to Joe Voelkel
11. Lynne Hare E-mail copy of Emerging Tech's tactical plan to Joe Voelkel
12. T. Boardman E-mail copy of home page procedures to Joe Voelkel
13. R. Hoerl Discuss integration of Emerg. Tech TP with others, with Lynne
14. Lynne Hare Discuss integration of Emerg. Tech TP with others, with Roger
15. R. Hoerl Send T. Boardman info on stat'l thinking & How To's from Stat Div
16. V. Czitrom Follow up with ASA on 4th course for continuing ed.
17. Innis Sande Discuss setting up focus group room/audience in Chicago, with Hoerl & Mason
18. R. Hoerl See # 17.
19. B. Mason See # 17.
20. R. Hoerl Send updated budget from Tim to J. Voelkel for distribution
21. T. Boardman send note to Lynne/Roger about home page (missing buttons...)
22. V. Czitrom write a job description for continuing ed, copies to Roger and Lynne
23. R. Hoerl Roger will send action items of Commun's Plan conf. call to Joe V.
24. I. Sande Check with ASA on status of member list being done with ASA.
25. R. Mason (With Leon) Create a process for transferring ongoing member updates on the Home Page to yearly updates to the operating manual.
26. *** ALL *** Read your job descriptions. If there are any problems, talk to Roger. Also, send any updates to B. Mason.
27. *** ALL *** Send any names of people you would like to see chair a contributed papers' session to R. Mee, especially names of younger members (mee@utkvx.utcc.utk.edu).
Item Description Responsibility
1 Updating Operating Manual L. Hare
Lynne felt the OM should updated more than annually, due to job
changes and so on. Tom B. said that this can be done instantaneously
on the home page. Roger said that the paper version will be updated
once/year and that more frequent changes can be sent to the Web
committee. (Offline conversation: a process is needed here to ensure
that the paper version contains the Web updates. This is the
responsibility of the past chair.)
Item Description Responsibility
2 Continuing Ed job description V. Czitrom
Veronica pointed out that her job description did not exist. Roger
asked her to write a this description, with copies to Roger and Lynne
Item Description Responsibility
3 Update on 7 action items of 12/1/95 conf. call R. Hoerl
1. Tom Boardman, Eileen Boardman and Ramon Leon: Develop a procedure for
maintaining the Q&P Homepage. Tom said they have a procedure but it
is not formalized. Will have a mid/late Feb conf call with
communication team. Essentially the procedure is: for minor changes
contact Ramon (or Tom or Eileen). For major changes send to Tom or
Eileen. Roger asked that Tom send a note to Lynne and Roger on what
buttons etc. still need to be filled in on the home page
2. Bob Mason: Updates/corrections to Version 2 of the Q&P Operating
Manual Bob said these had been done and were sent from the ASA office
in December.
3. Roger Hoerl: Secure additional members for the Committee on
Nominations Roger said that in the future the Chair-Elect and
nominees for next years chair Elect will form the committee. In this
way, when a person is Chair, they will be working with people they
selected.
4. Roger Hoerl: Secure additional members for the Committee to Nominate
Fellows Roger said this was done: Carolyn Morgan (GE), Chair; Bob
Lundegard (NIST); and John Cornell (U of F).
5. Veronica Czitrom: Confirm CE course sponsorship for 1996 Chicago
Meetings after ASA approval of submitted courses Veronica said the
there were 4 courses sitting at ASA, but that she hasn't heard from
them. It was pointed out that ASA has not received them all, so
Veronica will call ASA
6. Innis Sande: Finalize plans for having a second Focus Group at the
1996 Chicago Meetings Innis said that morning on Wednesday is
proposed. She needs to book a room, needs to see how to do it. The
proposed discussion is on SPC and DOE applied to TQ, but she would
like some "plants" in the audience to raise questions, just in case.
Volunteers? Roger said that he, Innis and Bob Mason will use e-mail
to discuss how to set up room and who to get.
7. Tim Read: After receiving 1995 spending reports from ASA (Penny
Young), compile an updated 1996 Q&P budget Tim has sent Roger the
updated budget. Roger will send to Joe Voelkel for distribution.
Item Description Responsibility
3. Emerging Technologies T.P. Status L. Hare
Lynne pointed out that these technologies seem to cross over into the
other T.P.'s. He has talked to Tom and Eileen about a "moderated"
conversation on WWW on certain statistical issues. The moderator
would help weed out junk and decide who can respond to questions that
the moderator can't answer. As an example, Joan Rosenblatt from NIST
has agreed to moderate a discussion--see Lynne's T.P. in Appendix 1
for details. This falls closest to Read's Communication's T.P. Lynne
also pointed out that at NIST, there is a lot of interest in WWW.
Lynne can {will?}create a link from NIST to ASA's home page, to help
get the ball rolling. Tom thought it was a good pilot and suggested
we try it. Terri saw the need for such sessions, but Lynne has moved
faster on it.. The amount of effort is still unknown -- volunteers
can join in later to help Lynne as needed. Innis is also in favor of
a trial but said that, technically, putting a moderated discussion
the home page is very difficult. If Rosenblatt can do it, great. The
Communications group had proposed a "newsgroup" for a conversation,
but this is not moderated. Finally, Roger said that the clear
overlap here with the Homepage group and the Communication groups
raises the question of whether Emerging Technologies should be merged
in with one of these groups. Roger and Lynne will begin to discuss
this.
Item Description Responsibility
4 ASQC Stat Division Tactical Plan. Status. Roger Hoerl
The plan is 1. Share info on SD projects in Amstat News and the Q&P
Newsletter and home page (along with pointers to Stat Division). This
coming weekend, Roger will meet with Stat Division people on
"statistical thinking." The results will be distributed to ASA
members as just described. 2. Provide Q&P with access to Stat
Division's How-To Series of books. This information will be
distributed as just described. 3. The Stat Division members are more
non-statistician oriented, so statistical research is not a priority,
but it is to Q&P members. The plan is for Stat Division to identify
research opportunities, to be disseminated to Q&P. Nancy Belunis
(current Stat Div chair) has given Roger some ideas, to be
disseminated in the June Newsletter and on the home page. 4. Joe
Voelkel is the official liaison between Q&P and the Stat Division.
His role to keep the chair in Q&P abreast of developments in Stat
Division that are important to Q&P, and vice-versa.
Item Description Responsibility
5 Communications Tactical Plan. Status. Innis Sande
Their work to date has basically been covered above. They have had
one conf. call, which generated action items for the next call.
(Roger will send these to Joe V. for attachment here). The member
list is being done with ASA. She'll check up on it.
Item Description Responsibility
6 Continuing Education Tactical Plan. Status V. Czitrom
Agreement on a jointly sponsored course on multivariate regression is
pending. Joint with Computer Section. Course offered by D. Cook. Q&P
has no financial involvement, but we will publicize this course to
our members. Roger said that, per the tactical plan, we should inform
Q&P member of commercially available short course on our home page,
and people can give feedback on courses that they took.
Item Description Responsibility
7 Conference call formats R. Hoerl
Roger proposed the following formats for conference calls. 1. Monthly
conference calls should be reserved mostly for new activities. For
example, for this year this would be updates on 5 items--the 4 1996
Tactical Plans and the Home Page. For ongoing activities, only
exception reports should be given, e.g. difficulties in finding
material for the upcomong newsletter. 2. All are invited to these
calls, but only a representative for each of the 5 items are needed,
as well as the Chair and the Secretary. Also needed are those
responsbile for action items from the previous conference call,
unless they have sent a resolution of the action item (E-mail,
please) to the secretary before the call. 3. Two/three large
conference calls per year will be also be set up. These will consist
of report-outs from the various committees. 4. Note that day-day
issues on ongoing activities should be addressed by the Operating
Manual, not in conference calls.
Item Description Responsibility
8 Next conference call R. Hoerl
The next conference call will be a new-activities call. It will be
held on March 20, from 1-2 EST. The conference call after the March
20 one will be a report-out conference call.
Item Description Responsibility
9 (Pre-conference-call request. Added to R. Mee
minutes)
Names to chair contributed paper
sessions in Chicago.
Bobby Mee asked, in an E-mail to J. Voelkel before the conference
call, that anyone who has any people they would like to see chair
contributed papers' sessions to please pass on to him. He is
especially interested in names of some of our younger members
(mee@utkvx.utcc.utk.edu).
Append Description Responsibility
1 Copy of: ASA Q&P Emerging Technologies L. Hare
(Sent from Lynne for distribution, per Roger's request) To: ASA Q&P
Leadership involved with the Web and Emerging Technologies From:
Lynne Hare Subject: Joint Effort Friends: At the Orlando Strategic
Planning meeting, three of us, Susan Devlin, Steve Zayak and I, were
charged with the responsibility to develop a plan to get the Section
more actively involved in "Emerging Technologies." During our
breakout session, we learned that the three of us have different
views regarding emerging technologies. Should an effort be made to
help put things right with regard to use and abuse of statistical
methods? Should we focus on managerial(mis)understanding of
statistical technology? Should we foster research into new methods
in statistics such as PLS and neural nets. Since Orlando, I've been
struggling with what to do. To add resource, Roger Hoerl suggested
we have Ramon Leon on the sub-committee. Ramon's comment,
paraphrased, is that Emerging Technologies should include the web.
This started me thinking even more (very dangerous). A few weeks
ago, I was visiting Boulder staff in my new capacity at NIST, and I
had the good fortune of dining with Eileen and Tom Boardman. We told
old Rutgers stories and batted ET around a bit. [Rule: If you like
what follows give me the credit; if you dislike, blame Eileen and
Tom.] One thought that came up was to use the web to foster ET.
Understand that we havevery limited resources. We cannot hope to put
down all statistical heresies.We cannot be the sole, major focal
point for the introduction and application of new technologies.
However, we can provide a forum for discussion of ideas regarding ET.
Armed with that idea (See rule.) I returned to my lush government
office at NIST and contacted Joan Rosenblatt. For those of you who
don't know Joan, she headed up Statistics there for many years,
became the director of one of NIST's eight labs, served on the ASA
Board, ran for ASA president and just recently retired after 41 years
of gov't service. She is a marvelous statistician originally hired
into what was then the National Bureau of Standards by Churchill
Eisenhart. In her retirement, Joan will be working in our
Statistical Engineering Division as a guest researcher. I asked her
if she had any interest in moderating a discussion, topic of her
choice, on the web. Naturally, I tried to bias her with my pet idea
of finding structure in very large data sets. She said she'd think
about it (bad news). A few days later when I asked her if she had
thought about it, she said she had and that she might want to monitor
a discussion on treating data that don't have numbers. Immediately I
thought of treating "idea" data using such techniques as affinity
mapping. She had something else in mind: data as graphs and charts
(good news). So here's the idea (See rule.) Those of us involved
with the web and those of us involved with ET pool our
sub-committees, brains, time and other resources and solicit web
discussion group leaders (e.g., Joan) to moderate discussions in
fields where they are comfortable. We would have to come up with
some "moderator guidelines" and we would have to assure access to
the net with links to their locations from the ASA Q&P home
page.(Details to be worked out by the Webmaster?) We could solicit
moderators using the webpage, itself, and/or in the newsletter. We
could even have a moderator-de-tutti-moderators(Joan) who could ride
herd on the whole system. All in favor, heap praise upon me; all
opposed heap abuse on the Boardmans. (Rule) Note: since I wrote
this, Roger sent me a copy of Tim Read's Q&P Communication Team
e-mail summarizing the results of their conference call on Dec. 4.
What I am suggesting above is consistent with their activities. We
would augment them by giving definition and structure to the
conversations on the web. (Communications Team, please let me know
if you think I have this wrong.) What say? E-mail me with your
comments, please by January 5. Lynne
Append Description Responsibility
2 How the Q&P Homepage works T. Boardman
(Sent from Tom for distribution, per Roger's request) The content of
the Q&P Homepage is, of course, under development. After you visit
the home page send suggestions for improvements and additions to the
web co-editors, Tom & Eileen Boardman at
"boardman@lamar.colostate.edu".You can reach them from the home page
under "officers." The co-editors with assistance from the Webmaster,
Ramon Leon, and other members of the web team will decide on content.
Of course, we need the help and advice from the other officers of Q&P
Section. After we have some more experience with this process, we
likely will make changes. Here's how you can send material to the
editors: Submission of materials for the Q&P Homepage should be
e-mailed to Tom & Eileen Boardman. They would prefer attached files
in MS Word format, if possible. If not, just include the text in
your e-mail. Contact theBoardmans for details on submission if
needed. They hope to include things other than text, so if you have
a picture which might help, send that too. Tom
Append Description Responsibility
3 Partnership with ASQC Statistics Division R. Hoerl
ASA Q&P TACTICAL PLAN FOR 1996 PARTNERSHIP WITH ASQC STATISTICS
DIVISION Revision 1, December 22, 1995 I. Name - Partnership With
ASQC Statistics Division II. Team Members - Roger Hoerl (Leader),
Bob Mason, Bobby Mee, Lynne Hare, Joe Voelkel (Liaison) III.
Objectives - To leverage the existing and future efforts of the
Statistics Division to add value to our members, and allow the
Statistics Division to benefit from our efforts. IV. Plan: 1.
Share information on the existing Statistics Division project on
Statistical Thinking via the Newsletter and/or Amstat News. 2.
Provide Q&P members with access to ASQC publications, such as
"How-To's". This could be part of a standing column in the
Newsletter. 3. Identify and disseminate research opportunities in
the analysis of customer data. Have Statistics Division identify key
technical issues in AMA/ASQC partnership on customer satisfaction.
Communicate these problem driven research opportunities to our
members. 4. Establish Joe Voelkel as the liaison to Statistics
Division from Q&P. V. Milestones: 1. Have something in Amstat
News early in 1996, and in June 1996 Newsletter. 2. Put something in
Amstat News by mid 1996, and in June 1996 Newsletter. 3. Summarize
continuing education courses from 1995 JSM in the January 1996
Newsletter. Sponsor a session in this area for 1996 and/or 1997 JSM.
Contact Statistics Division officially in January, so that something
could be published in the June Newsletter, and mid 1996 Amstat News.
4. Discuss with Nancy Balunis of Stat Division in January, establish
this position in next listing of officers and next edition of
Operating Manual.