Statistics Meeting Book (September 19, 2018)

Delia: Still waiting for Board of Directors to vote on this. Hopefully it will happen soon.

d. Bimonthly article to be published in every issue of ILM, called “Random Thoughts”, of Statistical interest, by the Stat Committee Members on a Voluntary Basis: 1. Next Article to be published in the November/December 2018 Issue? 2. From R. Rathbone, Editor, ILM “A typical article may run 500-600 words, with graphics/pictures, etc. This would be a page.” 3. Request for Volunteers for short articles: a. Equivalency Testing by Robert LaBudde - Done! b. Measurement Uncertainty or related, by Jane Weitzel c. Ideas for future issues: Topics of Interest for AOAC Analytical Community ▪ Intermediate Precision ▪ False Positive/False Negative & its relationship to the POD Model ▪ LOD/LOQ ▪ Proficiency Testing 4. Deadlines are generally the first week of the prior issue, e.g.: 1 st week of July for publication in September. OTHER PROJECTS & DISCUSSIONS (All – 11:05AM-11:20AM) (Other projects and discussions) a. Scott Coates, on behalf of OMB, is working on several higher priority topics for input to OMB: 1. Intermediate Precision (RSDi) 2. False Positive/False Negative Rates/Sensitivity vs. Probability of Detection (POD) 3. Linearity 4. Clarification on Number of Calibration Points

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Sidney: Next topic, we will need to work on the definitions on Repeatability, any volunteers? Robert, Paul, Qian volunteered.

b. Waiting for guidance from OMB on what is needed or we start the process ourselves 1. Use the document from c. The AOAC Cannabis working group: - Sidney Sudberg/Anli Gao/Robert LaBudde, etc. 1. SMPR’s for both methods completed 2. Open for comments

V. NEW BUSINESS (All – 11:20AM-11:25AM) a. Manuscript Review Forms Update

1. Qualitative & Quantitative Studies b. Next Symposium, 2018 AOAC Annual Meeting

1. Four (4) papers to be presented 2. 2 nd Round submitted to AOAC I

Robert: we can share the annual meeting progress and material with all committee members.