55 Years of Harvard Statistics: Stories, Snapshots, and Statistics

Xiao-Li Meng ()
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A chapter in Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S, 2012, pp 91-109 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Late evening of Valentine’s Day, 1957. The driver of a VW Bug, wearing his trademark leather hat with ear flaps, waited patiently at Boston’s Logan Airport. Finally, a pair of newlyweds stepped out of a much delayed flight from Toronto. They were not expecting a Valentine’s Day party, but rather an Ivy League interview process. However, the VW Bug took the young man and his bride directly to a house on Pierce Street in Belmont, about 15 miles west of the airport. Greeting him was not a set of challenging questions, but a very lively celebratory party already in progress.

Keywords: Faculty Member; Belief Function; Senior Faculty Member; Poker Player; Joint Appointment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_8

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