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Responsible
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
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.
e. Statistics Advisor Review Form-
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 12th , 11:00 AM EST subcommittee meeting. It was decided to open this
up to all StatCom members if any decide to participate.
Committee
McKenzie
Wehling
LaBudde
Weitzel
Sudberg
IV OTHER PROJECTS & DISCUSSIONS