Fall Meeting, Colorado-Wyoming Chapter, ASA
September 17, 1997
University of Colorado, Denver
1250 14th Street
(1/2 Block from Larimer Square)
Denver, CO
6:15 - 6:30, Social Time
6:30 - 7:30, Presentations
7:30 - 9:00, Informal Dinner
Our speaker for this event will be Dr. Wayne Nelson, who is internationally
known for his work in the area of reliability. Wayne spent 23 years at
General Electric, and now works as a private consultant and teaches
engineering applications of statistics for many companies, professional
societies, and universities. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), and
American Statistical Association. He is also the author of two well-known
books related to accelerated testing and applied life data analysis, and he
has written well over 100 papers. Wayne has received the Brumbaugh,
Wilcoxon, and Youden prizes from ASQC, and eight outstanding presentation
awards from ASA. The abstracts for Dr. Nelson's presentations are given
below.
"HOW TO MAKE OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS"
In this brief talk, which was developed at the invitation of the American
Statistical Association's Continuing Education Program, Dr. Nelson will
share his insights on how to improve your presentations, which will further
your career. His advice will be illustrated with his most recent award
winning presentation:
"WEIBULL PREDICTION OF A FUTURE NUMBER OF FAILURES"
This talk presents simple new prediction limits for the number Y of
failures that will be observed in a future inspection of a sample of units.
The past data consist of the cumulative number X of failures at a previous
inspection of the same sample of n units initially. The life of such units
is modeled with a Weibull distribution with a given shape parameter value
B.
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