VIII Seminar on

The VIII Seminar on Applied Statistics of IASI, devoted to "Statistical Methods in Quality and Productivity", was held in Panama on July 23-27, 2001.

The International Program Committee was chaired by Vijay Nair (Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), and composed of Nick Fisher (Valuemetrics Australia), Luis A. Escobar (Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA), Ramon V. Leon (Department of Statistics, College of Business Administration, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA), Raul P. Mentz (Institute of Statistical Research, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. President of IASI), Evelio O. Fabbroni (Technical Secretary of IASI), and Edilberto De León M. (Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Exactas y Tecnología, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá).

The National Organizing Committee was chaired by Edilberto De León M. and composed of Mercedes de Lopez, Elias Chavarria, Plutarco Ramos, Gil Blas Aguilar, Judith M. Rivera B., Elizabeth Barahona, and Amarilis Graell de Arosemena. Vice President of IASI Dimas Quiel Reyes and the Institute's Technical Secretary Evelio O. Fabbroni, gave systematic support to the work carried out by the National Organizing Committee.

The Seminar counted with auspices of the University of Panama, of the General Comptrollership of the Republic of Panama, and of the Committee on Statistics in Business and Industry of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

The event had 105 participants, coming from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, United States, and Venezuela.

The activities included the presentation of 5 invited conferences, 6 short courses, 10 contributed papers, a discussion panel, and a special session.

Invited conferences. (1) Vijay Nair, University of Michigan, USA. "The Role of Statistics in Industry: A Review and Recent Developments". (2) Nick Fisher, Valuemetrics Australia. "Statistics and Performance Measurement". (3) Camilo Dagum, University of Bologna, Italy and University of Ottawa, Canada. "Human Capital, Productivity and Economic Development". (4) Osvaldo Ferreiro, Universidad de San Andrés, Chile. "Statistics in Academia and Industry in Chile". (5) Estela Bee Dagum, University of Bologna, Italy: "A comparative study of some trend-cycle predictors for current economic analysis".

Short courses. (1) Osvaldo Ferreiro, Universidad de San Andrés, Chile. "Road to Excellency: Six Sigma Strategy". (2) Nick Fisher, Valuemetrics Australia. "Introduction to Organisational Performance Measurement". (3) Teresa Villagacía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. "Measuring Customer Needs and Quality of Service". (4) Ramon V. Leon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. "Using Design of Experiments to Make Processes Robust". (5) David James, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA. "The Use of Graphs for Data Analysis". (6) Luis A. Escobar, Louisiana State University, USA. "A Review of Statistical Methods for Reliability".

Contributed papers. (1) Francisco Aparisi and Juan Carlos García. "Gráfico Combinado T2 - MEWMA". (2) Patricio Sánchez Bello, Antonio Vaamonde L., and Eulogio Pomares B. "Técnicas Estadísticas para la Identificación de Vinos: Perfil Aromático". (3) Laura Altendorff, Elda Micheli, Leskovar M., and Paola Zuliani. "Consumo de Vinos de Mesa de Rio Negro y Neuquén-Patagonia Norte [Argentina]". (4) Francisco Aparisi and César Haro. "Diseño de un Gráfico T2 de Hotelling con Tamaño y Frecuencia de Muestreo Variable". (5) Gabriela Damilano and Pedro Puig. "Inferencia en una Distribución de Weibull para Muestras con Censuramiento". (6) José Alberto Vargas N. "Estimaciones robustas de Parámetros en la Carta de Control Multivariada T2". (7) Nely Serrano, Ricardo Ríos and Hugo Pérez "Determinación de la Capacidad de Carga en el Cultivo de Tilapias". (8) Gustavo Ramírez Valverde and Benito Ramírez Valverde. "Cartas de Control np en Presencia de Sobredispersión". (9) Víctor Leiva Sánchez, José Antonio Díaz García and Manuel Galea. "Aplicaciones en la Ingeniería del Coeficiente de Variación de una Población Elíptica Dependiente". (10) Holger Capa Santos. "Predicción Bayesiana Empírica para Tiempos de Vida con Distribución Exponencial".

Discussion Panel on "How to Promote Applied Statistics in Panama and other Latin American countries". Moderator: Raúl P. Mentz (President of IASI). Panelists: Dimas Quiel Reyes (Universidad Santa María La Antigua, Panama), Rolando Gordón (Faculty of Economy, Universidad de Panamá), Ramón V. Leon (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA), Luis A. Escobar (Louisiana State University, USA), and David James (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA).

Special Session on "Current criteria for Quality in Statistical Information". Organizer and Moderator: Pilar Martín Guzmán (President of the International Association for Official Statistics - IAOS). Speakers: Héctor Benavides Rullier (National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru), Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics-IBGE and Executive Committee of IASI), Marcelo Ortúzar (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean-ECLAC). Panelists in Round Table: Héctor Benavides Rullier, Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva, Marcelo Ortúzar, Juan Luis Moreno (Ministry of Economiy and Finance of Panama), Manuel Ferreira (Chamber of Commerce of Panama), and Omar Sánchez (Deputy Director of Statistics and Census of Panama).

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