Department of Statistics records
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, meeting minutes, faculty notes, news articles, department history files, and statistics summer institute binders.
Dates
- 1966-2011
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. Permission to use material from this collection must be obtained from Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.
Administrative History
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.
Extent
7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)
3 cartons (3 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged in six series: 1. Department of Statistics notes and meeting minutes, 1973-1993. 2. Department of Statistics newspapers, 1974-1990. 3. Department of Statistics studies and research, 1968-1976. 4. Department of Statistics department history, 1966-1989. 5. Department of Statistics information on the major, 1981-1982. 6. Summer Institute of Applied Statistics participant binders, 1976-2011.
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/UA1188.xml
Custodial History
Transferred from records management in May 2005.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred; Records Management; May 2005.
Appraisal
Departmental records (University Archives collecting policy, July 2003).
Processing Information
Addendum processed; Erin Owens; September 2014.
- Title
- Register of Department of Statistics records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jennifer Kim
- Date
- 2011 August 30
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2014 October 1: Addendum added; Erin Owens.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo UT 84602 US