In 1938, Griffith Evans, chair of the Berkeley mathematics department, brought Jerzy Neyman to Berkeley to develop a statistics program. He presumably thought of two or three undergraduate courses, and a similar number of graduate courses taught by Neyman and perhaps one or two younger people. That things turned out very differently was due to two factors: Neyman’s ambition and energy, and the explosive development of the field of statistics in the wake of World War II.
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Lehmann, E.L. (2008). The Berkeley Statistics Department I: Establishment and First Generation. In: Reminiscences of a Statistician. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71597-1_6
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