Minutes, Q&P Conference Call
2-4 PM EST, June 11, 1997

Roll call:

1. L. Hare *

2. J. Voelkel *

3. T. Boardman *

4. C. Morgan *regrets*

5. E. Boardman *

6. S. Devlin

7. E. Lagergren *

8. R. Hoerl *regrets*

9. I. Sande *

10. W. Letsinger *Europe*

11. G. Vining

12. P. Donnelly

13. S. Schiller *

14. V. Czitrom *

  1. R. Leon
  2. P. DeFeo *
  3. T. Crosby *regrets*

Agenda

2:00 - 2:05 Roll call - Lynne

2:05 - 2:20 Update to do's from last call - Joe & Lynne

2:20 - 2:40 Update of the 4 priority projects

Membership - Innis

Communications - Tom

Education - Carolyn

Statistical Thinking - Lynne

2:40 - 3:50 Brief updates from committee chairs (approx 5 min each, please)

Membership - Innis

Treasury - Susan

Operating manual - Roger

1997 JSM Program - Teri

1997 Continuing Ed. - Bill

1997 Research. Conf. - Jeff/Veronica

Publications - Pat DeFeo

Newsletter - Pat Donnelly

Program chair-Elect - Eric

Council of Sections - Geoff/Eileen

Committee to nominate fellows - Carolyn

Nominations - Veronica

Tactical Planning meeting - Veronica

Did I leave out anyone/anything - Lynne

3:50 - 4:00 New business; schedule next call (after JSM?)

Action Items from Conference Call

Previous action items, still incomplete, with comments

63. J. Voelkel (and T. Boardman). Talk with SD to see if we can publish some of their articles in Q&P newsletter.

* Janice Shade, SD Newsletter editor, has just been called.

** (J. Shade phone call after the conference call) -- Newsletter copyrighted, but usually not the article. J. Voelkel will work with her on this -- she will contact author for permission, and if OK send me the article in MS Word.0 format.

*** Joe V. and Tom B. will work together on this. (12/96)

**** LH. Last issue - nice article by Snee. Would like to publish this. Tom will ask for permission from editor of SPES/Q&P, Janet Buckingham 210-522-2407, then NYNEX from Ron Snee 212-395-3956.

***** (LH 4/97). In progress. Tom has worked with Janet B., who has Snee article. May appear in two newsletters.

****** (TB 6/97). Whether article will appear in one or two newsletters still not known.

92. R. Hoerl. Will see how to make our role more proactive in 1998 MSMESB, such as choosing a speaker. And see item #73.

* Roger. We would like to have more influence, rather than just a name and a contribution. He will contact D. Lin about this, and then decide who will take that responsibility.

* Roger (4/97). Will be a meeting June 26-28 (MSMESB at Penn S. U.) to discuss our increased role. Hopes a Q&P'r can attend.

** (6/97) Lynne will contact Roger to see what can be done. Dennis Lin or Rosenberger at PSU may be of help.

98. E. Boardman and G. Vining

Bring up at Council of Sections who will take responsibility for ASA-wide advertising of discussion This is in regard to CoS promoting the various discussion groups that are currently under way. Eileen will send this off as a discussion topic to Piegorsch suggesting that ASA homepage is good place to do this.

* hold on, thru JSM

** (6/97) still no word on Council of Sections. Waiting for agenda.

99. J. Voelkel.

Call up Stat Division for item 43. We are still not linked to ASQC's Home Page. Contact Mark Kiel Webmaster for Stat Division, 708 841 8383 x 2164.

* not done

102.L. Hare

Call T. Boardman to establish a committee to review minipaper submission.

* in progress.

* (6/97 L. Hare). Have Eric and publication officer elect (M. Leitnaker). How about Tom, Pat DeFeo, Susannah, Mary. They will try to meet at JSM - can schedule after JSM. New mini-paper editor needed for next year (for V. Czitrom to fill)

103.C. Morgan

Put article in AmStat News and Q&P Newsletter for creating a Q&P link of people involved in other organizations.

* not present

** (6/97, by E-mail message) Article sent to Q&P newsletter, not yet to AmStat News.

104.L. Hare

Write Tactical Plan for statistical thinking.

* first draft out.

** (6/97) Second draft out. Looking for comments.

107.R. Hoerl, J. Voelkel, R. Leon.

Decide on frequency and time of OM updates.

* Roger. Propose to maintain officers' #'s and addresses on Web continuously. Update OM once/year at end of year (December). Still need to assign accountability.

* (6/97) JOV to call Roger

112.C. Morgan. Need champion for interactions with other organizations. Try Stu Hunter first., then AmStat News.

* no updated info on this.

** (6/97) (by E-mail after the call) C. has just gotten information on contacting Stu. She will try to reach him soon.

New action items

(These also include action items from above when the responsibility has shifted to another person.)

113.L. Hare - send regrets to those who ran but did not win elections.

114.All. Send L. Hare comments on his second draft of the Tactical Plan for statistical thinking. This was e-mailed on 6/11 and also appears in Appendix A of the minutes.

115.L. Hare and V. Czitrom. Formulate agenda for JSM Tactical Planning meeting.

116.L. Hare. See who would like to participate in the JSM Executive Committee meeting by phone, besides S. Schiller, to see whether to establish a conference call there.

New Items

Item Description Responsibility
1

Update on action items of 4/30/97 Conf. Call

All

Only completed action items are listed here. On-going and new items are listed above.

71. R. Hoerl and I. Sande. Contact Marie Argana re adding Q&P brochures in mailing packet of new members of ASA

* Have contacted her. She will bring up at ASA meeting, and said will get back to Roger.

** Roger will call her (12/96).

*** Roger called her, but has not gotten a response. He will call Ray Waller directly.

**** (4/97) Roger called Ray. Ray said ASA will do this, and Innis will ensure that it gets done.

***** (6/97) Done.

105.I. Sande, T. Boardman, C. Morgan, L. Hare.

Write status summaries, send to Pat for newsletter.

* Carolyn, yes. Innis, yes (attached). Tom, not yet-will mail to Pat. Lynne, yes.

* (Tom, 6/97) He'll do for next newsletter.

108.Executive Committee: L. Hare, V. Czitrom, J. Voelkel, S. Devlin, E. Boardman, G. Vining, T. Crosby, E. Lagergren, P. DeFeo, S. Schiller, R. Hoerl

See Action item 106 and respond to each other and Eileen on it.

* ongoing. J. Voelkel - (re?)send this to exec committee members.

** (6/97) done

109.I. Sande. Update Q&P brochure - officers' names. Need for action item 71 and for JSM.

* (6/97) done. 1997 version printed, ready to mail. Plan is to have copies of brochure by info. Desk at JSM. Innis will followup on this.,

110. Innis. Send update of tactical draft by E-mail to Lynne and Joe

* (6/97) done

111.All. Review Lynne's Statistical thinking draft

* done (for first draft)


Item Description Responsibility
2

Review Status of 1997 Priority Projects

Membership Satisfaction (Innis)

We have more or less met the spirit, if not the letter, of the four points in the tactical plan.

  • We have conducted a survey of members.
  • We tried to survey ex-members, but not with much success. I might pursue this on a one-on-one basis if I have time.
  • We have submitted an article to Amstat News about where the money goes.
  • We have encouraged communication from members, and got a little feedback which we will put in the Newsletter.
  • However, I haven't gotten any controversial articles published.

Communication (Tom)

Major activities - home page. R Leon quite responsive to putting new material up, but really no new initiatives. Leon excited about putting mini-papers on home page. Other activity - mini-papers.

Lynne - what seems to be missing is how the web page material fits into the mission. Good topic for T.P. session.

Education (Carolyn)

She will report separately to Lynne.

Statistical Thinking (Lynne)

Second draft out by e-mail. Also appears here in Appendix A. One problem is that Lynne, and Roger, have too much of the work here. Lynne plans to call Bill Parr at U.T. for help here. Presentations are available and can be E-mailed. Tom B. - believes it would be good to look to include S.T. more broadly, e.g. DOE, and in any place that it will help people solve problems. This may be a way to get people more involved in it.


Item Description Responsibility
3

Updates From Committee Chairs.

Membership (I. Sande)

Nothing else to report on.

Treasury (S. Devlin)

(Received by E-mail after the call). The status is still not good. We have not yet had a corrected statement of our 1996 financials. However, my last interaction (about 10 days ago) put us only with minor changes needed. The system and procedures conversions at ASA is not done. I have nothing for 1997 as yet. They hope by July something will be available.

Operating Manual (R. Hoerl)

nothing to report, per Lynne

1997 JSM Program (T. Crosby)

E-mail sent to Lynne. All set up, on the Web page

1997 Continuing Education (W. Letsinger)

All set up, on the Web page

1997 Quality and Productivity Research Conference (J. Hooper)

Meetings went very well. Good speakers. Anne Freeney good case study section. Peter John keynote speaker. Panel session on teaching stats. New-a session of contributed papers, including student presentations.

Newsletter (P. Donnelly)

* not here *.

Publications (P. DeFeo)

Lynne and Pat Agreed to publish proceedings. Pre-publication price from $20 to $25 to prevent losses

Program Chair-Elect (E. Lagergren)

Sent articles for roundtables this year, and for requests for invited sessions for next year. To appear in AmStat News and Newsletter.

Council of Sections Activities
(J. Hess, E. Boardman, G. Vining)

Nothing to report.

Committee to Nominate Fellows (C. Morgan)

(Reported by E-mail after the conference call) Our 1997 Fellows nominee was indeed elected, but it is not appropriate to provide the name at this time.

We do have a candidate list of nominees for next year and we are working to identify individuals to serve as nominators.

Nominations (V. Czitrom)

Slots to fill, have started to collect names. Lynne - consider those who ran last year but did not win election.

Tactical Planning meeting - Veronica

Agenda to be formulated by Lynne and Veronica. Susannah - can she and others be connected by Conference call for Exec Committee meeting. Lynne will send out E-mail on this.


Item Description Responsibility
4

New Business and Other Remarks
  • Tom B. On Deming lecture comm. Had conference call 2 days ago - they want closer ties to sections that may help identify Deming lecturer speaker. Plan to invite Chairs on Tues. at JSM for lunch with Kano-5 sections

 

  • Lynne. Two weeks ago, Lynne and Roger were at SPAIG meeting in North Carolina. About 80 people attended, about 50:50 academic/industry. Concern about producing enough statisticians for careers in industry and govt. If interested, look at SPAIG homepage. To be reported in American Statisticians. Veronica-last year, Academe-Industry Collaboration project, 7/95. published by SIAM this year - case studies (22:22 paired off to produce case studies..)

 

  • Election Results:

Chair-elect: Tom Boardman

Program Chair-elect: Dan McCarville

Publications Officer Elect: Mary Leitnaker

Council of Sections Rep: Lonnie Vance

  • Key events at JSM:
    • Tactical Planning Meeting: Sunday, Aug 10, 1:00 - 5:00 PM, Marriott, Ranchos, Las Palmas
    • Executive Committee, Monday, Aug 11, 9:00 - 11:00AM, Hilton, Balboa B
    • Mixer with SPES, Tuesday, Aug 12, 6:00 - 8:00PM, Marriott, Orange County 3

 

  • Veronica is hopeful we can find some people willing to work for Q&P, e.g. at mixer. Let Veronica know if people are interested.


Item Description Responsibility
5

Schedule Next Call

L. Hare

Will schedule next conference call at JSM.

Appendix A.
ASA Section on Quality and Productivity.
Statistical Thinking Strategic Plan, Second Draft

Purpose

To promote the use of Statistical Thinking within the sphere of influence of the Section.

Operational definition

Statistical Thinking is a philosophy of work and action based on the

following three fundamental principles:


Partnering organization

ASQC Statistics Division

Materials available

1. Special Publication of the ASQC Statistics Division on Statistical Thinking by G. Britz, D. Emerling, L. Hare, R. Hoerl and J. Shade, available from the Quality Information Center, ASQC, 611 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53201-3005.

 

2. Overhead transparency masters from the May 23, 1995 ASQC Annual Quality Congress presentation on "Statistical Thinking for Business Improvement" by Roger Hoerl, Ronald Snee and Lynne Hare, also available from the Quality Information Center at ASQC.

Key strategies

1. Schedule talks and workshops

2. Find qualified volunteers to present talks

3. Link to ASQC Statistics Division

4. Participate in the new ASA workshop series

Action items

1.1 3M/Imation Presentation - done by Roger Hoerl, 5/14/97

1.2 Rocky Mountain ASQC Conference - done by Lynne Hare, 6/7/97

1.3 FTC, Baltimore Short Course - in planning stages: Hare, Snee and Hoerl to present, with Britz, Emerling and Shade to facilitate group breakouts -10/22/97

1.4 ASA Joint Statistical Meetings, Anaheim: Lynne Hare and Roger Hoerl to lead round table luncheon discussions on "Statistical Thinking for Statisticians" - 8/10-11/97. Note: these round table discussions represent follow-up discussions to a round table discussion held at the '96 JSM titled "Statistical Thinking for Management" where it was learned that many of the statisticians who participated had little understanding of Statistical Thinking.

1.5 Line up additional talks and workshops at the ASA Q&P Section tactical planning meeting in Anaheim.

2.1 Publish an appeal in the Section Newsletter, Hare, done.

2.2 Request help from ASQC/SD, Hare to do.

2.3 Publish an appeal for volunteers in the ASQC/SD Newsletter, Hare to do.

3.1 Contact webmasters and editors of ASA Q&P and ASQC/SD home pages to make resource information available in down-loadable form to volunteers who want to make presentations, Hare, by 9/1/97.

4.1 Plan and present full day workshops in conjunction with the new ASA workshop series to begin in Washington, DC this summer or fall.

4.1.1 Deliver workshop summary and outline to Ray Waller, Hare by 8/1/97

4.1.2 Schedule workshops with ASA, Hare by 9/1/97

4.1.3 Enlist volunteers to present workshops, Hare by 11/1/97