ENBIS-26 Conference

Session

Award session

Sep 7, 2026, 4:00 PM

Centro Didattico Morgagni

Conveners

Award session

• Winfried Theis (Kufuu Consultancy)

20. The Irreducible Error: What Statistics and Management Have in Common

Sophie Carr (Bays Consulting)

9/7/26, 4:15 PM

Young Statistician/ Best Manager/ Greenfield

The truth is that some error, no matter how hard we try, simply can’t be modelled away. That irreducible error that stubbornly remains, no matter how time we have spent selecting predictors, or agonising over parameter tuning. Accepting that there will always be some randomness in statistics goes a long way to helping manage a technical team.
In this talk, Sophie will draw on her own...

62. Statistical Process Monitoring Based on Functional Data Analysis

Fabio Centofanti (KU Leuven)

9/7/26, 4:45 PM

Young Statistician/ Best Manager/ Greenfield

In modern industrial settings, advanced acquisition systems allow for the collection of data in the form of profiles, that is, functional relationships linking responses to explanatory variables. In this context, statistical process monitoring (SPM) aims to assess the stability of profiles over time in order to detect unexpected behavior. This talk focuses on SPM methods that model profiles as...