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It was one of the very first statistics departments in the United States. Established in 1931 as a spin-off from the Department of Economics, it was called the Department of Economic and Social Statistics, a name that remained until 1964. Along with the social science departments at the University of Pennsylvania, the Departments of Economics, Sociology, and Political Science, its home was in the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. But unlike those departments, which eventually moved to the School of Arts and Sciences, it remained in Wharton and never moved.
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Department Names
Department of Economic and Social Statistics | 1931–1964 |
Department of Statistics and Operations Research | 1964–1975 |
Department of Statistics | 1975– |
Department Chairs
J. Parker Bursk | 1932–April 1963 |
Donald S. Murray (Acting Chair) | May 1963–June 1964 |
Russell L. Ackoff | July1964–December 1965 |
Richard C. Clelland | January 1966–June 1971 |
John S. de Cani | July 1971–June 1976 |
Donald F. Morrison (Acting Chair) | July 1976–December 1976 |
John S. de Cani | January 1977–June 1978 |
Donald F. Morrison | July 1978–June 1985 |
David K. Hildebrand | July 1985–June 1990 |
Paul Shaman | July 1990–June 2002 |
Abba M. Krieger | July 2002–June 2008 |
Edward I. George | July 2008– |
Standing Faculty Roster in 2011–2012, with year of appointment
Lawrence D. Brown, 1994; Andreas Buja, 2002; T. Tony Cai, 2000; Dean P. Foster, 1992; Emily B. Fox, 2010; Edward I. George, 2001; Shane T. Jensen, 2004; Sham M. Kakade, 2010; Abba M. Krieger, 1974; Jean Lemaire, 2011; Mark G. Low, 1991; Zongming Ma, 2010; Alexander Rakhlin, 2009; Paul R. Rosenbaum, 1986; Lawrence Shepp, 2010; Dylan S. Small, 2002; J. Michael Steele, 1990; Robert A. Stine, 1983; Abraham J. Wyner, 1998; Nancy Zhang, 2011; Linda H. Zhao, 1994.
Secondary Appointments in Department of Statistics, Academic Year 2011–2012
Richard A. Berk. Criminology; Robert F. Boruch, Graduate School of Education; Eric T. Bradlow, Marketing; Francis X. Diebold, Economics; Daniel F. Heitjan, Biostatistics and Epidemiology; Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science; J. Richard Landis, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology; Hongzhe Li, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology; Max Mintz, Computer, and Information Science; Robin Pemantle, Mathematics; Ben Taskar, Computer, and Information Science.
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George, E.I., Krieger, A.M., Morrison, D.F., Shaman, P. (2012). University of Pennsylvania 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_34
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