Department of Statistics notes and meeting minutes, 1973-1993

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: UA 1188 Series 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Materials include notes and correspondences, BYU faculty notes, department faculty meeting minutes, and department minutes. Materials date from between 1973 and 1993.

Dates

Creation: 1973-1993

Creator

Brigham Young University. Department of Statistics (creator, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Restricted. Closed for 35 years from the date of creation of the records, and thereafter open to the public in accordance with the University Archives Policy.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Please direct any questions to Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.

Administrative History

From the Collection:

The Department of Statistics (1960-) is responsible for teaching courses related to statistics at Brigham Young University.

In the mid 1950s Brigham Young University's President Ernest L. Wilkinson created the Bureau of Church Studies. In order to predict for facilitating in church education Wilkinson hired Howard Nielson to start a study that would predict church membership and university age membership up until the year 2000. This study was finishied in 1957, and Nielson was given a job as a teacher in the economics department. A year later Nielson was given a job offer at IBM for 3 times the Brigham Young University salary. He discussed this with Dean Weldon Taylor. Dean Taylor did not want to lose Nielson. Therefore, in 1960, Taylor created a statistics department, and Nielson stayed on.