STATISTICIANS IN HISTORY
U of M Department
of Statistics Turns 40
Vijay nair, Donald A. Darling Professor and Chair, Department of
Statistics, university of Michigan
T
he Department of
Statistics at the University
of Michigan turned 40
years old this month. To celebrate,
faculty and students attended a
reception at the Joint Statistical
Meetings in Washington, DC,
and a half-day symposium in Ann
West Hall, current home of the university of Michigan’s
Arbor, Michigan.
Department of Statistics
Even though the department
is relatively young, statistics at
the University of Michigan has
a long history, dating back to
the early 1900s. The first course
in mathematical statistics was
offered by James W. Glover
in 1902, and the first course
devoted exclusively to statisti-
cal theory was also taught by
Glover, in 1912. The University
of Michigan was one of the
first two American universities
to offer academic programs in
mathematical statistics.
Harry C. Carver, who
started the statistics program,
also founded the Annals of
Mathematical Statistics in 1930.
The journal was edited at the
University of Michigan until
1938. Carver also played a major
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