2020 Kick Off Meeting

Cost: Free
Lunch: Catered
Location: Azusa Pacific University, Mary Hills 234 (located on APU’s East Campus at the physical address of
901 E. Alosta Ave, Azusa, CA 91702)

10am - 11:00am:
Presentation by Daniel R. Jeske, UC Riverside on “Discussion of the March 2019 Special Issue of
The American Statistician on Alternatives to P < .05”

Abstract: A special issue of The American Statistician, with the same title as my talk, was published in March 2019. The special issue contains 43 papers that discuss and propose alternative inference procedures that could either enhance or replace the use of "bright line" thresholds such as P<.05. In this talk, I will discuss the history and motivation that led to the special issue, and provide an overview of what I found to be some
of the most interesting papers in the issue. If you are new to this debate, or want to get caught up on the
recent developments, you won't want to miss this accessible presentation!

11:00am - 11:30am:
Presentation by Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University (ASU) on “Providing comment on Dr. Jeske’s presentation and talk about Ph.D. program at ASU”

11:30pm-12:30pm:
Lunch and presentation by Dr. Montgomery on “How Do You Make a Small Fortune in Wine…?”

Abstract: This presentation takes you through the author’s’encounters with wine and wine-making, starting
with a group of friends who became business partners in the ownership of a small vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Their passion in wine had led them to this venture realizing that they actually knew very little about making wine. However, some of the partners knew about the power of designed ex-
periments so over a series of seasons they developed a process for making world-class Pinot Noirs using fractional factorial designs. Today the winery produces several varieties of wine in addition to Pinot Noir
with annual production exceeding 22,000 cases.

12:30pm-1:30pm: Business meeting

Biographies:
Daniel Jeske is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), where he served as the department chair 2008-2015. He is also the Vice-Provost of Administrative Resolution at UCR. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and served on the ASA board 2014-2016. He is the current Vice-President of Membership and President-Elect for the International Society of Business and Industrial Statistics, one of the Associations of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He is
the current Editor-in-Chief of The American Statistician.

Douglas Montgomery is a Regents Professor of Industrial Engineering and Statistics at ASU. His research
interests are in industrial statistics. He is an author of 16 books and more than 200 technical papers. He is a
recipient of the Shewhart Medal, the Brumbaugh Award, the Hunter Award, and the Shewell Award, and the Ellis R. Ott Award. Montgomery is also a recipient of the George Box Medal from ENBIS (European Network For Business and Industrial Statistics). Montgomery is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Society for Quality Control, the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.