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Time-travel through sixty-five years of statistics at Rutgers. See how the department grew from its early applied roots, its solid trunk of mathematical statistics and probability, to its interdisciplinary blossoming.
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Adrain, R., “Research concerning the probabilities of the errors which happen in making observations,” Analyst 1 (1808), 93–109. Reprinted in S. M. Stigler, American Contributions in Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century. 2 Vols. New York, Arno Press, 1980.
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From a history of Mathematics at Rutgers. See expanded discussion there. http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~weibel/history.html.
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At that time a private College that in 1963 became part of the SUNY system.
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See http://www.ssc.ca/en/about/history-ssc/martin-bradbury-wilk. A detailed interview with Martin Wilk appears in Statistical Science 25 (May 2010), pp. 258–273.
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A referee noted the interesting fact that Pinkham’s major paper dealt with Benford’s law of leading digits.
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American Council of Learned Sciences, ACE, NRC, and SSRC. An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 1982. Based on Item (16) ‘Estimated “overall influence” of published articles attributed to the program, 1978–1979,” Rutgers tied with Stanford at third place.
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A detailed interview with Kemperman appears in Statistical Science Volume 15, Number 4 (2000), 396–408.
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See detailed interview with Herbert Robbins in Statistical Science 1 (1986), 276–284.
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See detailed interview with Ram Gnanadesikan in Statistical Science 16 (2001) 295–300.
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NY Times, January 16, 2000, “In football, 6 + 2 often equals 6” by David Leonhardt.
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Naus, J. (2012). Rutgers University Department of Statistics and Biostatistics. In: Agresti, A., Meng, XL. (eds) Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S.. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_18
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