Gordon Research Conferences
New Hampton School
New Hampton, New Hampshire
Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
August 12 – 16, 1963
Mavis B. Carroll, Chairman: General Foods Corp.
Harry Smith, Jr., Vice Chairman: The Procter and Gamble Co.
Monday, 12 August
Morning: - Topic: Indirect Measurement Problems in Radio Chemistry
Speaker: W. L. Nicholson, Hanford Laboratories, General Electric Co.
Chairman: A. M. Schneider, W. R. Grace Co.
Evening: - Topic: Multidimensional Scaling
Speaker: J. B. Kruskal, Bell Telephone Laboratories
Chairman: R. A. Bradley, Florida State University
Tuesday, 13 August
Morning: - Topic: Bayseian Statistics
Speaker: F. J. Anscombe, Princeton University
Chairman: C. L. Mallows, Bell Telephone Laboratories
Evening: - Topic: The Choice Between Different Models
Speaker: D. R. Cox, University of London
Chairman: M. Godfrey, CEIR
Wednesday, 14 August
Morning: - Topic: Attribute Sampling Plans and Their Dependence on Lot Size, Costs, and Prior Distributions
Speaker: A. H. Hald, University of Copenhagen
Chairman: R. A. Freund, Eastman Kodak Company
Evening: - Topic: Extreme Values in Quality Control
Speaker: D. Dugue, University of Paris
Chairman: W. J. Youden, National Bureau of Standards
Thursday, 15 August
Morning: - Topic: Applications of Stochastic Approximation to Process Control
Speaker: J. P. Comer, The Procter and Gamble Co.
Chairman: P. T. Atteridg, M. W. Kellogg Co.
Evening: - Topic: Quantifying A Series of Chemical Analogs
Speaker: S. M. Free, Smith, Kline, and French Laboratories
Chairman: R. W. Kennard, E. I. DuPont Company
Friday, 16 August
Morning: - Topic: Statistical Pitfalls in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Speaker: J. R. Bainbridge, Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand
Chairman: Clark Holloway, Jr., Gulf Research and Development Company
