Founders of Statistics - Founders of Departments of Statistics

Founders of Departments of Statistics

The role of a department of statistics is discussed in a 1949 article by Harold Hotelling, which helped to spur the creation of many departments of statistics in the United States.

Year Country University Founder References
1911 England University College London Pearson, Karl
1918 USA Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Pearl, Raymond
~1931 India Indian Statistical Institute Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
~1931 USA Columbia University Hotelling, Harold
1933 USA Iowa State University Snedecor, George W.
1941 USA North Carolina State University Cox, Gertrude
1942 Sweden Uppsala University Wold, Herman
1947 England University of Manchester Bartlett, M. S.
1947 USA Department of Biometry and Statistics, Cornell University Federer, Walter T.
1948 USA Stanford University —
1948 India University of Mumbai M. C. Chakrabarti
1949 USA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill —
1949 USA University of Chicago —
1953 England Cambridge University, Statistics Lab Wishart, John
1953 India University of Pune V. S. Huzurbazar
1955 USA University of California, Berkeley Neyman, Jerzy
1957 USA Harvard University Cochran, W. G.
Mosteller, Frederick
1957 Australia University of Sydney Lancaster, H.O.
1962 USA Texas A&M University Hartley, Herman Otto
1963 USA Yale University Anscombe, Francis
1965 USA Princeton University Tukey, John W
1965 USA University of Iowa Hogg, Robert V.
1966 Scotland University of Glasgow Aitchison, John
Silvey, David
1973 USA The Ohio State University Whitney, D. Ransom
1979 Canada University of Toronto —
1982 Hong Kong Chinese University of Hong Kong Tong, Howell
1988 England University of Oxford Hinkley, D. V.
1996 USA University of Virginia School of Medicine Harrell, Frank E.

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