Statistics Meeting Book (April 19, 2017)

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to her without issues, Mike & Hilde noted some minor differences between their calculations and a few cells in the spreadsheet. Mike will collaborate with Hilde to forward notes to Paul. Jane’s task is in progress and Caryn will begin shortly. Paul emphasized that any volunteers do their own work with reference to Appendix J only and not the Excel sheets’ calculations.

Ref: Copy of AOAC Micro Stats Preview v1.0 Workshop Demo.xlsx

b. Changes to Appendix J -Paul Wehling & Robert LaBudde (Leads) Mentioned only briefly. Will be updated when validation work is complete. c. Chi-Square Test Calculator -All http://lcfltd.com/AOAC/aoac-binary-v2-5.xlsx Briefly mentioned -to be handled with Appendix J changes d. Revising our committees’ TOR (OMB requested) The discussion on the latest version of this updated document {TOR 12-12-16 (3)} continued. In particular the phrase “… two thirds vote…” appears three times in the document and there was considerable discussion of the need/accuracy for the phrase and the consequence of the quorum- arithmetic as it relates to common practice and Robert’s Rules of Order. Qian gave the example that it might be possible that only 4 committee-attending members at a given meeting could vote to accept something being considered that the other members would not approve. Karen and Paul offered that we make the cutoff at 50%. The idea of having a non-voting Ex Officio member is not acceptable practice . Nevertheless, an easy decision could not be reached within the time of this conference call and Deborah will re-consider possible options per AOAC practice. Additionally, Robert thought it would be a useful reference point to know the number of quorums from last year’s calls. Mike will make a table of this within a week and submit to Deborah to aid in revisions. Caryn Thompson & Robert LaBudde (Leads) The committee has accepted the Quantitative, and Qualitative document presented. f. Intermediate Precision Working Group - Paul Wehling /Robert LaBudde/Jane Weitzel/Sidney Sudberg (Leads) Qian seems to be missing from notifications. Robert should prepare notes for an April 12 th , 11:00 AM EST subcommittee meeting. It was decided to open this up to all StatCom members if any decide to participate. e. Statistics Advisor Review Form -

Committee McKenzie

Wehling LaBudde Weitzel Sudberg

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