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The Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago was founded as the Committee on Statistics in fall 1949, chaired by W. Allen Wallis. It became a Department in 1956 with Jimmie Savage as its first Chairman. It has maintained a reputation at the highest level for research and teaching for over 60 years.

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  1. Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago, 5734 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Stephen M. Stigler

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  1. , Statistics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611-8545, USA

    Alan Agresti

  2. , Statistics Department, Harvard University, Oxford Street 1, Cambridge, 02138-2901, USA

    Xiao-Li Meng

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Appendices

I. Former faculty, in order of their first appointment

1949–1950

W. Allen Wallis

 

Jimmie Savage

 

John Gurland

 

Raj Bahadur

1950–1951

William H. Kruskal

 

Charles M. Stein

 

Murray Rosenblatt

 

Leo A. Goodman

 

Harry V. Roberts

1951–1952

K. Alex Brownlee

1954–1955

David L. Wallace

1956–1957

Sudhish Ghurye

1957–1958

Paul Meier

1958–1959

Patrick Billingsley

 

Gopinath Kallianpur

1959–1960

Melvin Katz

1963–1964

Barry W. Brown

1964–1965

Gus Haggstrom

1966–1967

Christopher Bingham

 

Morris L. Eaton

1968–1969

Stephen E. Fienberg

 

Michael J. Wichura

 

Frederick Glick

 

Gordon Sande

1970–1971

Shelby Haberman

1973–1974

Joe Whittaker

1973–1974

Michael D. Perlman

1974–1975

Sandy Zabell

 

Rod Little

1975–1976

Alan Izenman

1976–1977

Joan Sander Chmiel

1979–1980

Paul Sampson

1980–1981

Wing Hung Wong

1982–1983

Donald Rubin

 

David Draper

1984–1985

Alan Welsh

1987–1988

Augustine Kong

1988–1989

Kung-Sik Chan

1991–1992

Xiao-Li Meng

1994–1995

Peter Donnelly

 

Alejandro Murua

 

Eric Kolaczyk

1998–1999

Zhiyi Chi

1999–2000

Michael Larsen

2000–2001

Partha Niyogi

2002–2003

Marc Coram

2003–2004

Linda Collins

2008–2009

Keith Worsley

 

David Degras

II. Department Chairs

W. Allen Wallis 9/49-3/56

Jimmie Savage 3/56 -6/60

Paul Meier 7/60-6/66, 7/73-9/74, 10/83-6/86

William H. Kruskal 7/66-6/73

Michael D. Perlman 10/74-9/77

David L. Wallace 10/77-9/80

Patrick Billingsley 10/80-9/83

Stephen M. Stigler 7/86- 6/92, 7/05- 6/10

Peter McCullagh 7/92- 6/98

Michael L. Stein 7//98-12/01

Steven Lalley 1/02-6/05

Yali Amit 7/10-6/13

III. Current Faculty (Fall 2011)

Yali Amit

 

Mathias Drton

Per Mykland

Lars Peter Hansen

Dan Nicolae

Nina Hinrichs

John Reinitz

Risi Kondor

Michael L. Stein

John Lafferty

Matthew Stephens

Steven Lalley

Stephen M. Stigler

Greg Lawler

Ronald Thisted

Lek-Heng Lim

Mei Wang

Peter McCullagh

Kirk Wolter

Mary Sara McPeek

Wei Biao Wu

Debashis Mondal

 

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Stigler, S.M. (2012). University of Chicago 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_24

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