Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S.

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Agresti, Alan (Editor), Meng, Xiao-Li (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Statistics.; History.; Public health.; Mathematical statistics.; Higher education.; Social sciences.; Statistics, general.; History of Science.; Higher Education.; Social Sciences, general.; Public Health.; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.

Statistical science as organized in formal academic departments is relatively new.  With a few exceptions, most Statistics and Biostatistics departments have been created within the past 60 years.  This book consists of a set of memoirs, one for each department in the U.S. created by the mid-1960s....