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The teaching of statistics has a long history at Stanford prior to the formation of a statistics department. The university was founded in 1891, and starting in the early 1920s, courses in statistics appeared in a number of departments, each emphasizing a different aspect of the field.
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Olkin, I., Walther, G. (2012). Stanford University Department of Statistics. 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_20
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