Quality and Productivity Contributed Program at JSM

Theresa L. Utlaut, Q&P Program Chair

The Section on Quality and Productivity (Q&P) has an exciting line-up of contributed and topic-contributed sessions scheduled for the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami Beach. Q&P will offer four topic-contributed sessions and is sponsoring five contributed sessions. You can find all of the Q&P sponsored and co-sponsored sessions by searching the online program.

Topic-Contributed Panels and Papers

• Q&P Student Competition Winning Results: An Application of Statistical Engineering Using WatFactory for Quality Improvement
  Organizer: Stefan Steiner, University of Waterloo
  Chair: J.D. Williams, JP Morgan Chase
• Optimal Design of Experiments for Multiple Objectives
  Organizer: Theresa Utlaut, Intel Corporation
  Chair: Stu Hunter
• In Over Our Heads? Demystifying Complex Problems with Statistical Engineering
  Organizer: Theresa Utlaut, Intel Corporation
  Chair: Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research
• Monitoring and Change Detection in Industrial/Health Quality Control and Related Topics
  Organizer: Ejaz Syed Ahmed, University of Windsor
  Chair: Theresa Utlaut, Intel Corporation

Contributed Paper Sessions

• Methods in Experimental Design
• Advances in Process Control
• Data Streams, Web Pages, and Image Analysis
• Reliability Methods: Censoring, Estimation, and Control
• Bayesian Approaches in Quality Control

Cosponsored Sessions

• Statistical Engineering: Creating Sustainable Business Solutions by Integrating Statistics with Science
• Consulting Across the Sciences: Applications to Industry, Life, and the Biomedical Sciences
• Functional Data Analysis
• Topics in Experimental Design
• What Would Deming Have Said About Value-Added?
• Bayesian Modeling in Physics and Engineering
• Successful Statistical Consulting: The Practicalities