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Jim Filliben

 Statistical Engineering Division Arrivals/Activities/Awards 

40's Arrivals (9+) Activities Awards (0) 

Churchill Eisenhart 46-63 

Julius Lieblein 47-56

Joe Cameron 47-68

Emil Gumbel 47-47 

John Mandel* 47-00 

Jack Youden 48-71 

Henry Mann 49-49 

Gerry Lieberan 49-50 

Albert Bowker 49-49 

pre-1947: Eisenhart poses idea of measurment as 

a production process with quality control and 

 stat control , and predictability 

1947 *Pub"The Assumptions Underlying the Analysis 

of Variance " (Eisenhart) 

(Eisenhart) ANOVA (Biometrics) 

Credits: 1: scihi.org 2. researchgate.net 

1947 SED founded 7/1/47 (Condon & Eisenhart) 

1947 NBS lectures on extreme values (Gumble) 

1947 Youden aftermath: SED put on overhead 1/2 (Condon) 

1947 Focus: Sampling & test procedures (war impetus) 

1948 Flaws found in famous chem papers (Youden) 

1948 Project: Core sampling of baled wool (Boston) ASTM 

1948 Project: Standardized clothing sizes from 7000 & 37

 (pre-AD-X2, Draft Lottery, Alaska Pipeline, DST) 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

50's Arrivals (10+) Activities Awards (2) 

Mary Natrella 50-86 

Frank Proschan 51-52

William Connor 51-54 

Richard Savage 51-54

Willard Clatworthy 52-55 

Marvin Zelen 52-61 

Carroll Croarkin 55-63,73-00

Joan Rosenblatt 55-95 

Raj Chandra Bose 56,57,65

Harry Ku 59-98 

1950 Pub: "Index for Rating Diagnostic Tests", Cancer 

 (Youden) 

1951: Book: "Statistical Methods for Chemists" Wiley 

 (Youden) 

1951 Designs for Electronics division (Proschan) 

Eisenhart (1957,G) Div. Creator , DEX/Stat Methods, Author 

Mandel (1957,S) Stat Methods for NIST Testing & Research 

Credits: 1: Io9.com 2: NIST 3: Elsevier.com 

1951 Calibration designs created (resistors, 

 thermometers, weights) (Youden,Connor) 

1951 Linked Block designs created for spectrometry 

 (Youden) 

1952 PBIB designs published (Clatworthy) 

1953 * AD-X2 DOC controversy dealt with (DEX,Stat):

 25 6-cell batteries to 16 to 32 3-cell to 16 pairs to

 5,5,6 pairs on 3 charging lines (Youden,Cameron) 

1953 & 1954 Gumbel EV lectures & tables published

 (AMS # 22 & 33) (Lieblein) 

1953 Chain Block designs created (Youden,Connor) 

1954 to 1959: Youden write 36 bimonthly "Statistical

 Design" columns for Industrial and Engineering

 Chemistry 

1957/59/61 Booklets of Orthogonal Designs at 2, 3, and

 2&3-levels published (Connor,Zelen) 

Youden talks 

eisenhart talks of youden: 4 design types 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

60's Arrivals (7+) Activities Awards (5) 

Roy Wampler 63-80 

Brian Joiner 63-73

Dave Hogben 64-81

Sally Peavy 65-92 

Ruth Varner 65-93 

Jim Filliben 69-... 

Shirley Bremer 69-99

1960 Pub: "The Sample, the Procedure, and 

 the Laboratory" , Anal. Chem. 32 (13), 

 23A 37A (Youden) 

1961 *Pub: "Realistic Evaluation of the Precision & 

Accuracy of Intrument Calibration Systems" (34 p.) 

 0. process, 1. in stat control, 2 control repeatability & 

 reproducibility, 3. formal uncertainty statement 

( Eisenhart )--inspiration for Cameron & Pontius MAP 

1961 Pub: "Experimental Design and ASTM 

Committees ", Mater. Res. Stand. 1,

 862-867 (Youden) 

1961 Pub: "How to Evaluate Accuracy " 

 Mater. Res. Stand. 1, 268-271

 ( quantifying bias in interlab test methods) (Youden) 

1961 Pub: "Systematic Errors in Physical 

Constants ", Phys. Today 14 (9), 32-43

 ( quantifying bis in scientific measurements) (Youden) 

1962 Talk: "The Collaborative Test "

 at the referees’ 76th Annual Meeting

 of the Association of Official Agricultural

 Chemists, Washington, DC, 10/16/62

 (revolutionary interlab ruggedness testing ) (Youden) 

Deming L (1960,S) Disseminate Stat Methodology to S,T,I 

Youden (1962,G) DEX, Stat, Lecturer, Author, AD-X2 

Cameron (1963,G) Calibration Designs , Stat , AD-X2 

Hilsenrath (1963,S) Omnitab 

Rosenblatt (1969,S) Stat Leadership, Adv. Stat Methods Applic . 

Youden (1965) Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Youden (1969) Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal

Youden (1969) Shewhart Medal of the ASQC 

Credits: 1. gruasyaparejos.com 2. medcalc.org 3. amazon.com 

1963* Book: "NBS Handbook 91 : Experimental

 Statistics" (#2 NBS Bestseller, 5 languages)

 (Natrella) 

1963 Pub "Extreme Value Test for Outliers" (Youden) 

1964 1st NBS talk on MAP (Measurement Assurance

 Program) for weights (Cameron & Pontius) 

1967 Pub: "Realistic Uncertainties and the Mass 

Meaurement Process : An Illustrated Review",

 NBS Mono. 103 (Cameron & Pontius) 

1967 Book: "Statistical Techniques for Collaborative Tests"

 Association of Official Analytial Chemists (Youden) 

1968 Pub: " Expressions of Imprecision, Systematic

 Error, and Uncertainty Associated with a Reported

 Value", Measurements & Data, 2 (4), 72-77

 (Define accepted practices) (Ku) 

1969 Book: "Precision Measurement and 

Calibration" [Selected NBS Papers on Statistical

 Concepts & Procedures], NBS SP300 (Ku) 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

70's Arrivals (14+) Activities Awards (4) 

Jim Lechner 70-95 

Peter Tryon 70-82 

Ray Sansing 71-??

Wes Nicholson 72-72 

Janet Donaldson 73-86 

Charlie Reeve 77-90

Dom Vecchia 78-?? 

Cliff Spiegelman 78-87 

Keith Eberhardt 78-98 

Grace Yang 79-99 

Dennis Friday 79-?? 

Stefan Leigh 79-?? 

Walter Liggett 79-?? 

Jerry Sacks 79-80 

1970s Heavy Omnitab usage at NBS (Hogben) 

1970 * Draft Lottery (Rosenblatt, Eisenhart, Cameron, 

 Stefan, Filliben) 

1970 Pub on linear/multi-linear regression accuracy 

 (Wampler) 

1970 Brian Joiner founds Boulder SED group 

1971 ASA Presidency (Eisenhart) 

1971 Youden dies 

Mandel (1973,G) Exp. Designs, Stat Methods, Book 

Ku (1974,S) Expert Uncertainty, Quality Control, MAP, Book 

Rosenblatt (1976,G) Draft Lottery, Gov. Tech. Leadership 

Hogben & Peavy (1977,S) Omnitab 

Eisenhart (1977) Wilks Memorial Medal 

1971 Entire edition of JQT, Jan 1972 devoted to Youden 

197X 3 Youden 3 memorial awards established 

1973 Alaska Pipeline project (Filliben) 

1974 Joiner (Penn State): Omnitab => Minitab 

1974 Book: "Risk, Choice, and Prediction: An Introduction

 to Experimentation" (Youden) 

1974 Book: "Experimentation and Measurement" National

 Science Teachers Association. Vistas of Science

 (Youden) 

1974 Daylight Saving Time project (Filliben) 

1977 NBS hosts conference "Computer Science & 

Statistics : Symposium on the Interface " (Hogben) 

1978 First of 20+ Experiment Design workshops

 for NIST staff & external (Filliben+) 

1978 1st Dataplot lecture to NBS staff (Filliben) 

1979 Pub: "Measurement Assurance for Gage Blocks", NBS

 NBS Monograph 163, (an early MAP: dimensional 

metrology ) (Croarkin,Beers,Tucker) 

Credits: 1. reddit.com 2. alamy.com 3. amazon.com 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

80's Arrivals (18+) Activities Awards (14) 

Karen Kafadar 80-83 

John Rice 81-82

Ingram Olkin 83-84

Ray Carroll 84-89 

Hari Iyer 84-...

Alan Heckert 85-....

Bob Lundgard 86-94

Herb David 87-93 

Nancy Flournoy 87-87

Charles Hagwood 87-21 

Sam Saunders 87-93

Susannah Schiller 87-97 

Leon Gleser 88-95 

Robert Mee 88-97

Eric Lagergren 88-99

Jolene Splett 88-21 

Jack Wang 88-16

Kevin Coakley 89-... 

1980s Heavy Dataplot EDA Graphics & Non-linear 

 Modeling Usage at NBS & Worldwide (30-country 

 distribution) (120 institutions) (Filliben) <user's group> 

1982 Pub: "Measurement Assurance for Dimensional 

 Measurements on Integrated-Circuit Photomasks", 

 NBS Technical Note 1164 ( another early MAP: 

 semiconductors ) (Croarkin,Varner) 

1982 The Mandel-Paule statistic for consensus value 

 Is introduced (Mandel,Paule) 

1983 *Pub: "Expression of the Uncertainties of Final 

 Measurement Results", NBS SP644 ( a GUM (1993) 

forerunner ) (Eisenhart, Ku, Colle) 

1985 Pub: "A new analysis of interlaboratory test results". 

 ASQC Quality Congress Transaction, Balt. 360-366. 

( Mandel h statistic for interlab outliers ) (Mandel) 

1988 Pub: "Evaluation of a Copy-Prevention Method for 

Digital Audio Tape Systems ", NBSIR 88-3725 

 (Eberhardt) 

Reeve (1980,Br) Calib. Prog. in Dimen. Metrology + MAP 

Ku (1981,G) Foundations of Uncertainty, Calibration, NIST MAP 

Tryon (1981,S) SED/ Boulder Lead/Exp , Atomic Clocks 

Filliben (1981,Br) Dataplot Language/System for Gr/Mod/An/Math 

Natrella (1982,Br) Book: HB 91 : Exper. Statistics (NBS #2) 

Croarkin (1982,Br) Fund. of NBS Calib. & MAP + NBS Mono. 163 

Varner (1982,Br) Stat SW all NBS MAP : Mass, Len, Pres, Temp 

Donaldson (1983,Br) Stat Computing: Starpac Package (Boulder) 

Eberhardt (1983,Br) Methodology & Quality Throughput of SRMs 

Filliben (1984,G) Dataplot Language/System for Gr/Mod/An/Math 

Lechner (1985,S) Optimal Calibration Strategies for LTI Systems 

Vecchia (1986,Br) SED/ Boulder Lead/Exp, VOR Ph. Meter Calib.) 

Croarkin (1987,S) NIST Calib. Serv.: Oriface Meters & O2 in Si 

Croarkin (1989,As) Leadership in NIST MAP 

Eisenhart (1983) becomes NIST Fellow 

Credits: 1. imgbin.com 2. gizmodo.com 3. thefouriertransform.com 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

90's Arrivals (19+) Activities Awards (9) 

Will Guthrie 90-... 

Mike Frey 90-91, 16-... 

Janos Galambos 90-97

Wayne Nelson 90-91 

Robert Paule 91-91

Ker-Chau Li 91-91

Hung-Kung Liu 91-21

Lisa Gill 92-00? 

Nozer Singpurwalla 93-94

Mark Vangel 93-00 

Mark Levenson 93-99?

Nien Fan Zhang 94-... 

Andrew Rukhin 94-...

Robert Easterling 94-94

Jayara Sethuraman 94-95

Lynne Hare 95-97 

David Banks 97-99?

James Yen 97-...

Juan Soto 9?-?? 

1990s SRMs (Schiller,Eberhardt,Leigh) 

1990 Pub on eddy current probes to detect cracks 

 in medals (Splett,Iyer) 

1991 Pub: "The validation of measurement through 

 interlab studies" Chemometrics and Intelligent 

 Laboratory Systems ( Mandel k statistic for 

 interlab outliers ) (Mandel) 

Schiller (1991,Br) SRM Methodology, Throughput,& Quality 

Eberhardt (1992,Si) SRM Methodology, Throughput,& Quality 

Croarkin & Guthrie (1994,As #2) Int. Thermom , Improv. ITS-90 Func 

Lagergren & Kacker (1994,Br) Optimal Exp. Design for Ceramics 

Leigh (1995,Br) Effective Stat Collab., Training, & Recruitment 

Liggett (1996,Ro) Accurate Determination of Rockwell-C Hardness 

Guthrie (1997,Br) Optimal Packaging of Semiconductor Materials 

Wang (1998,Br) Optical Fiber Polarization & SEM Image Sharp. 

Zhang (1999,S) Semiconductor Wafer Characterization 

Credits: 1. kisbyto.blogspot.com 2. qc-services.com 3. NIST 4. hiclipart.com 

1991 The Schiller-Eberhardt statistic for consensus value 

 Is introduced (Schiller,Eberhardt) 

1992 Start of multi-year project on cigarette 

 ignition propensity (Eberhardt) 

1993 *Report given on multi-year effort to update and 

 improve the long-standing (1968) but deficient 

 international thermometry functions 

 (Croarkin,Guthrie) 

1993 NIST hosts conference "Extreme Value 

 Theory and Applications" (Galambos,Lechner 

 Leigh,Hagwood,Yang,Simiu) 

1993 GUM: "Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty

 in Measurement", ISO, Geneva. (non-SED) 

1994 Pub: "Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing . 

Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results", NIST

 Technical Note 1297, (Taylor & Kuyatt) (non-SED) 

1994 Book: "The Analysis of 2-Way Layouts" (Mandel) 

1996 Initial meetings between SEMATECH (Pat

 Spagon & Paul Tobias) & SED to pursue

 SEMATECH desire to jointly write a digital 

update to Mary Natrella's classic book : "NBS

 Handbook 91: Exprimental Statistics" (#2 NBS

 Bestseller, 5 languages) 

1996 Pub: " Statistics and the Question of Standards "

 NIST JoR, 101, 779-789 ( Steve Stigler ) (non-SED) 

1997* StRd (Statistical Reference Datasets)

 (Croarkin,Guthrie,Zhang,Lagergren,Fagan,Gill,

 Rust,Van g el,Liu,Filliben,Donaldson) 

1999 The Vangel-Rukhin statistic for consensus value

 introduced (Vangel,Rukhin) 

1999 Stat methodology developed for image-based 

SRMs for SEMs for semiconductors (Zhang) 

1999 Pub: "Statistical Testing of Random Number

 Generators " Proceedings of the 22nd NISSC (Soto) 

1999 SED endures high level "administrative differences"

 resulting in devastating talented personnel losses : 

 Lynne Hare, Mark Vangel, Mark Levenson,

 David Banks, Keith Eberhardt, Eric Lagergren,

 Lisa Gill 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

00's Arrivals (8+) Activities Awards (6) 

Nell Sedransk 00-06 

Blaza Toman 00-... 

John Lu 01-...

Ivelisse Aviles 01-09

Bill Strawdeman 01-xx

Dennis Leber 02-xx 

Karen Kafadar 03-06

Sarah Street 04-04,15-17 

Antoni o Possolo 06-13 

2000 Pub on improved metrology to trap ultra-cold 

neutrons , reducing uncertainty of mean lifetime estimate by 

 by 10 to 100, and improving high-bandwidth optical fiber 

 systems, digital oscilloscopes, & photodiodes (coakly) 

 (Coakley) 

2001 Book: "A Statistical Test Suite for Random 

Liggett (2002,Fr) Int. Unification of Disparate Rockwell-C Scales 

<Croarkin>,Filliben,Guthrie,Heckert,Zhang (2003,S) e-Handbook 

Zhang (2004,S) Calib. Method.: Satellite Ocean-Color Sensors 

Leigh (2004,Br) NIST-wide SRMs, Consulting , & Stat Training 

Filliben (2005,G) World Trade Center 

Wang (2009,As) Time & Frequency Waveform Calibration 

 and Pseudo random Number Generators for 

Cryptographic Applications" (3370 cit.) (Rukhin,Soto) 

2002 NIST hosts conference: "Designs for 

General Linear Models " (Aviles) 

2003? First of 30+ Uncertainty workshops

 for NIST staff & external (Guthrie,Liu) 

2004 NIST hosts Spring Research Conference (xx) 

2005 *Virtual Book: NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook

 of Statistical Methods (3000 pages) (Google stat

 terms hits; 50 1st / 32 2nd / 16 3rd)

 (xxx page views/year for 17 years)

 (Croarkin,Filliben,Guthrie,Heckert,Zhang)

 https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ 

Credits: 1. NIST 2. planet.kerry.com 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10's Arrivals (5+) Activities Awards (17) 

Adam Pintar 10-... 

Steve Lund 12-... 

Amanda Koepke 15-...

Michael Frey 15-... 

Peter Tonner 18-...

2010 Deepwater Horizon (Possolo,Toman) Filliben & Leber (2010,G) NIJ Safety/Durability: Police Body Armor 

Possolo (2010,G) Estimates of Areas for Illicit Coco Cultivation 

Possolo & Toman (2011,S) Deepwater Horizon 

Filliben (2011,Br) Military Body Armor Testing & Safety 

Filliben (2011,Br) Evaluation of Cell-imaging Segmentation Algs. 

Splett & Wang (2014,S) Steel SRMs 

Coakley (2016,G) Loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem

Toman (2016,S) FDS : Fire Dynamics Simulator 

Lund (2016,Fr) SRM 2373:DNA-based HER2 Protein: Cancer Diag.

Lund (2016,CC) Contrib. to Bio & Physical Science Programs 

Hagwood (2016,Br) Building Evacuation Reference Datasets 

Samarov (2017,Fr) RM 8398: Human DNA: Whole-Gen. Variants 

Lund (2017,Br) Assess Cell-counting Quality for Cellular Therapies 

Pintar (2018,G) U.S . Extreme Wind Speeds 

Toman (2018,Br) Processes for Determination of Chemical Purity 

Filliben & Leber (2018,Br) ASTM-F45: A-UGVs ( Unman Gr Veh ) 

Toman (2019,Br) Nanomaterial Cell-based Toxicity Assay Proc. 

Possolo (2014) becomes NIST Fellow 

Credits: 1. news.vice.com 2. forensic-evidence.co.uk 3. wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu 

2010 NIST hosts Quality and Productivity 

 Conference (Guthrie, VJ Nair) 

2015 1st Live SRM (NISTmAB) 

 (Schiel+,Filliben,Heckert) 

2015 NIST Uncertainty Machine (Possolo, LeFarge) 

2017 NIST Consensus Builder (Koepke, LeFarge, 

 Possolo,Toman) 

2018 Nature Pub : Bacterial Growth & MEIO (Min Info Std. 

 for Engineered Organisms (Hecht,Filliben) 

2018 AI Research (Tonner/Pintar/Iyer) 

2019 NIST hosts Fall Technical Conference (Pintar) 

2019 ASA Presidency (Kafadar, alum) 

201+ SRMs (Yen,Leber) 

201+ DHS Radiation Detection (Leber) 

201+ Forensics (Lund,Iyer) 

201+ * Bio 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20's Arrivals (12+) Activities Awards (9) 

Lucas Koepke 20-... 

Felix Jimenez 20-... 

Gregory Haber 20-... 

David Newton 20-... 

Mary Gregg 20-....

Gregory Stock 20-... 

Anuj Srivastava 20-... 

Yong Ma 20-... 

Caitlin Berry 20-... 

Angela Folz 20-... 

Ankur Sahoo 20-... 

Mikela Waldman 20-... 

2021 SRMs upgraded protocol 

2022 Book: Measurement Uncertanty : A 

Reintroduction (Possolo,Meija ) $7! 

2022 NIST Decision Tree ( Possolo,Koepke, 

 Newton,Winchester) 

2022 NIST Abacus (Toman) 

2022 NIST 50 EDA Gallery (Filliben) 

202+ Forensic s (Lund,Iyer) 

202+ * Bio (...) 

Filliben & Lund (2020,G) SRMS for Biothreat Agents 

Iyer & Samarov (2020,G) Human Genome RMs (2.5B DNA bases) 

Toman (2020,Fr) SRM for Concrete Rheometers (Viscosity) 

Frey & Splett (2020,As) Spectrum Sharing : NASCTN 

Frey & Splett (2020,Br) Emitted Power from LTE Cellular Devices 

Iyer (2021,G) RGTM 10169: Covid Research Grade Test Material 

Iyer (2021,Fr) SRM 2391d: PCR-Based Profiling 

Toman (2021,Br) SRM 1898: Photocatalytics 

Lu (2021,Br) Particle Size/Shape for Biotherapeutic Drugs