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FTA/MTC Statistical Sampling Workshop
October 15-18, 2005 * Denver Marriot City Center, Denver, CO

Program Outline

Following is a daily outline of the Workshop program.  Monday and Tuesday sessions are open to all attendees.  The Wednesday session is government-only.  All changes/updates to this program will be posted to this website.

Sunday - October 15, 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.	Registration (Welcoming reception will be on Monday)
Monday - October 16, 2006
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 a.m.	Welcome and opening comments John Feldmann, FTA Harold Jennings, MTC Ed Phillips, Ohio Dept. of Taxation
8:40 - 8:50 a.m.	Introduction of our panel of four guest speakers Harold Jennings, MTC
8:50 - 9:20 a.m.	Statistical sampling general overview Dr. Don Roberts, Morning Panel Moderator: Ed Phillips
9:20 - 9:40 a.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians
9:40 - 10:00 a.m.	Open Discussion (by audience)
10:00 - 10:20 a.m.	Morning Break
10:20 - 10:50 a.m.	Case study demonstration on population analysis including data screening and verifying completeness of electronic records Dr. Will Yancey
10:50 - 11:10 a.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians
11:10 - 11:30 a.m.	Open Discussion (by audience)
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Table Topics Luncheon (Lunch Provided)
1:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Selecting a representative sample and the importance of narrowing the sampling frame to taxable items of interest Dr. Al Kvanli, Afternoon Panel Moderator: Harold Jennings
1:30 - 1:50 p.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians
1:50 - 2:10 p.m.	Open Discussion (by audience)
2:10 - 2:40 p.m.	Determining an adequate sample size in conjunction with establishing precision and confidence Dr. Richard Kulp
2:40 - 3:00 p.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians
3:00 - 3:20 p.m.	Afternoon Break
3:20 - 3:40 p.m.	Open Discussion on previous topic (by audience)
3:40 - 4:10 p.m.	How to handle negative or credit transactions within statistical sampling audits Dr. Don Roberts and Dr. Will Yancey
4:10 - 4:30 p.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians
4:30 - 5:00 p.m.	Open Discussion (by audience)
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.	Reception with light hors d’oeuvres
Tuesday - October 17, 2006
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Can anything be done to correct a poorly designed sampling frame that renders poor precision and unreliable results? Dr. Al Kvanli, Morning Panel Moderator: Ed Phillips
9:50 - 10:10 a.m.	Morning Break
10:10 - 10:40 a.m.	Continuation of the case study to illustrate alternative methods to stratify a sampling frame Dr. Will Yancey
10:40 - 11:00 a.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	Open Discussion (by audience)
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch on your own
1:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Viable options to allocate the results of the statistical sample to portions applicable to local tax jurisdictions or department budgets Dr. Richard Kulp, Afternoon Panel Moderator: Harold Jennings
1:30 - 1:50 p.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians
1:50 - 2:20 p.m.	Open Discussion (by audience)
2:20 - 2:40 p.m.	Afternoon Break
2:40 - 4:10 p.m.	Empirical Likelihood as an alternative method for evaluating the results of simple and stratified samples   Dr. Al Kvanli and Richard Kulp
4:10 - 4:30 p.m.	Comments from our other Guest Statisticians and open discussion by audience
4:30 - 5:00 p.m.	Open Forum: Ask the Experts (audience can address any non-agenda question to any or all panelists) Panelists: Dr. Don roberts, Dr. Al Kvanli and Dr. Richard Kulp
Wednesday - October 18, 2006 (Closed Session- Open only to government agencies)
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.	Open forum discussion between the states on their sampling policies and procedures Morning Panel Moderator: John Feldmann
10:00 - 10:20 a.m.	Morning Break
10:20 - 10:50 a.m.	Open forum discussion on the value of Computer Audit Specialist (CAS) training
11:00 a.m. - 12 noon	Open Forum: Ask the Experts (Audience can address any other questions to any or all panelists.  The following are possible topics:)
12:00 noon	Adjournment

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