ENBIS Statistics in Practice SIG September 2014 Dr Shirley Coleman ISRU, Newcastle University, UK

Background  Statistics in Practice Special Interest Group decided to explore the use of webinars to offer a year round interaction with ENBIS members  Many ENBIS members are highly skilled presenters and could be invited to offer webinars  Webinars have no location constraint  To date we have held 10 webinars

Webinars 1-3  13 May 2013 Roland Caulcutt: Clients don’t think like statisticians  12 June 2013 Antje Christensen: Quality Improvement in Pharma  30 Sept 2013 Jacqueline Asscher: Teaching DoE to students

Webinars 4-7  29 Oct 2013 Ron Kenett, Daniele Amberti: DoE in practice: A review of basic and computer experiments using hands-on simulators  31 Jan 2014 Sam Savage: The Arithmetic of Uncertainty, a Cure for the Flaw of Averages  12 Feb 2014 Christian Ritter: Stats with Excel  19 Mar 2014 Winfried Theis: Sequential DoE case from Shell

Webinars 8-10  30 Apr 2014 Chris McCollin: Historical published maintenance data: What can it tell us about reliability modelling?  05 June 2014 Astrid Ruck: Autoliv Modeling of Time-Pressure Curve Classes based on Pre- Volumes  04 July 2014 Andrea Ahlemeyer-Stubbe: A step by step guide to extracting valuable information from business data

Webinar operation  ENBIS has an account with Webex company  We can hold webinars with up to 25 participants  Participants do not need to have any Webex or other special software to join in  Webinars are not recorded but presenters may make slides available on ENBIS website

Quality control  Each webinar has a moderator who organises and facilitates the webinar  The moderator coordinates the chat and collates the questions during the webinar  The speaker and moderator have a practice webinar before the event  Good feedback from participants so far

Future plans  We have several webinars in the planning stage  Proposals are welcome from ENBIS members  Please contact for further details