2018 Program – Fall Technical Conference

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At-A-Glance Schedule – Thursday, October 4, 2018

8:00a – 9:00a	Welcome & Plenary Session Gerald J. Hahn Achievement Award Collaboration Wayne Nelson, Wayne Nelson Statistical Consulting
9:15a – 10:00a	1A: Experiences with Big Data Murat Kulahci, Technical University of Denmark and Lulea University of Technology Moderator: Flor Castillo	1B: Big Data at Owens Corning: A Case Study on Deriving VOC from 1.4 Million Words of Free-Form Text Tina V. Pickerel, Owens Corning Keith Bowers, Bowers Management Analytics Moderator: Amanda McGough	1C: Slack-Variable Versus Mixture Modeling for Mixture Experiments: A Definitive Comparison Greg F. Piepel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Moderator: Byran Smucker
10:30a – 12:00p	2A: Collaboration Strategic Design and Analysis for Hosting Data Competitions Christine Anderson-Cook, Los Alamos National Laboratory Statistics and Metrology: A Collaboration Stephen V. Crowder, Sandia National Laboratory Moderator: Steven Schuelka	2B: STAT Invited Session Customizing and Assessing Deep Learning for Specific Tasks Amir Tavanaei, Procter and Gamble Understanding and Leveraging Today’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Michael Garris, NIST Moderator: Adam Pintar	2C: Technometrics Invited Session Fast Computation of Exact G-Optimal Designs via I_λ-Optimality Christopher J. Nachtsheim, University of Minnesota Central Composite Experimental Designs for Multiple Responses with Different Models Wilmina M. Marget, Augsburg University Moderator: Laura Freeman
12:15p – 1:45p	Luncheon: Aerospace Technologies: Past, Present, and Future Jerry Tarnacki, Senior VP (Ret.), Space Business Unit, Aerojet Rocketdyne
2:00p – 3:30p	3A: Process A Recommended Set of Indices for Evaluating Process Health Kevin White, Eastman Specification Setting – an Adaptive Approach Brad Evans, Pfizer Research And Development Moderator: Ashley Childress	3B: Model Validation Model Validation Strategies for Designed Experiments Using Bootstrapping Techniques with Applications to Biopharmaceuticals Christopher Gotwalt, JMP Division of the SAS Institute Predictive Response Surface Models: To Reduce or Not to Reduce? Byran Smucker, Miami University Moderator: Maria Weese	3C: Industrial Engineering Condition-Based Maintenance Policy under Gamma Degradation Process David Han, University of Texas at San Antonio Estimating the Uncertainty of the Change in Holdup Inventory Philip Gibbs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Moderator: William Guthrie
4:00p – 5:00p	Youden Address Leveraging Industrial Statistics in the Data Revolution L. Allison Jones-Farmer, Miami University

At-A-Glance Schedule – Friday, October 5, 2018

7:30a – 8:00a	Registration
8:00a – 9:30a	4A: Q&P Invited Sequential Bayesian Design for Accelerated Life Tests Yili Hong, Virginia Tech Comparing Two Kaplan-Meier Curves with the Probability of Agreement Nathaniel Stevens, University of San Francisco Moderator: Wayne Nelson	4B: CPID Invited Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Order-of-Addition Experiments Joseph Voelkel, RIT Design and Analysis for Order-of-Addition Experiment: Some Recent Advances Dennis Lin, PSU Moderator: Stephanie DeHart	4C: JQT Invited Bias/Variance Trade-Off In Estimates of a Process Parameter Based on Temporal Data Tricia Barfoot, Emmetros Ltd. DP-Optimality in Terms of Multiple Criteria and Its Applications to the Split-Plot Design Shaun S. Wulff, University of Wyoming Moderator: Peter Parker
10:00a – 11:30p	5A: SPES Invited FPL – Power Delivery’s Powerful Predictors Daniel Barbosa, Florida Power & Light Storm Outage Forecasting – Handling Uncertainty and Dealing with Zero-Inflating Seth Guikema, University of Michigan Moderator: Willis Jensen	5B: DOE in DOD Difficulties with Applied Statistics in DoD: Practical Solutions to Limitations in Testing Francisco Ortiz, The Perduco Group Power Approximations for Failure-Time Regression Models Rebecca Medlin, Institute for Defense Analyses Moderator: David Han	5C: QE Invited Statistical Engineering Approach to Improve the Realism of Computer-Simulated Experiments with Aircraft Trajectory Clustering Sara R. Wilson, NASA Prioritization of Stockpile Maintenance with Layered Pareto Fronts Sarah Burke, The Perduco Group Moderator: David Edwards
11:45a – 1:15p	Luncheon: Statisticians Leading in a Data Science World Lisa LaVange, ASA President
1:30p – 3:00p	6A: Education The Art of Teaching and Communicating Design of Experiments to Non-Statisticians Shari Kraber, Stat-Ease Small Statistics, Big Data Curriculum Chad Foster, GE Aviation Moderator: Christine Anderson-Cook	6B: DOE A Practical Framework for the Design and Analysis of Experiments with Interference Effects Katherine Allen Moyer, North Carolina State University Calibration of Regression Models used in Smartphones’ Applications for Estimating the IRI in Urban Areas in Peru A. Valeria Quevedo, Virginia Tech Moderator: Michael Joner	6C: Applications Geometric Shape Deviation Modeling Across Different Processes and Shapes in Additive Manufacturing Systems Arman Sabbaghi, Purdue University Applying Monte Carlo Logic Regression to the Drug-Adverse Event Association Study Minh Pham, University of South Florida Moderator: Shaun Wulff
3:15p – 5:15p	Wine & Cheese Reception with SPES Special Panel Session Statistical Engineering; What Is It and Where Is It Going Roger Hoerl (Union College), William Brenneman (Procter and Gamble), and Geoff Vining (Virginia Tech)

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