Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 13/24/4
Iowa State University

Department of Statistics
Contracts and Projects Records, 1931-1980, undated


Descriptive summary

creator: Iowa State University. Department of Statistics
title: Contracts and Projects Records
dates: 1931-1980, undated
extent: 2.52 linear feet (6 document boxes)
collection number: RS 13/24/4
repository: University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access: Open for research
publication rights: Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation: Iowa State University, Department of Statistics Contracts and Projects Records, RS 13/24/4, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Abstract

The Department of Statistics was not formed until 1947, but the study and teaching of statistics began at Iowa State in 1915 when a statistics course was taught by Professor George Snedecor through the Department of Mathematics. In 1933 Snedecor organized the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State College, the first of its kind in the nation. The Statistical Laboratory provides consulting work and promotes statistical research. The Department of Statistics was formed in 1947 and has since offered major work for the B.S., M.S., and the Ph.D. degrees in statistics and minor work to students taking major work in other departments. This collection contains records related to some of the projects and grants received by the Statistical Laboratory. These records include contracts, final reports for projects, annual reports, grant approvals, correspondence, publications, census reports, and surveys.

 

Historical note

The Department of Statistics was formed in 1947. The study and teaching of statistics at Iowa State had begun earlier, soon after Professor George W. Snedecor came to Iowa State in 1913. Snedecor first taught statistics in 1915 through the Department of Mathematics. This first course in statistics was called the "Mathematical Theory of Statistics." Early in his career at Iowa State, Snedecor became interested in statistics, particularly as the subject applied to agricultural research. He collaborated with Henry A. Wallace and instituted weekly seminars during the winter and spring of 1924 which were the beginning of a specialized interest in statistical research at Iowa State.

Growing demand for statistical services caused Iowa State to create the Mathematics Statistical Service in the Department of Mathematics in 1927 with Snedecor in charge. In 1933, Snedecor organized the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State College and became the Laboratory's first Director (1933-1947). The first of its kind in the nation, the Statistical Laboratory provides consulting work and promotes statistical research. The Statistical Laboratory grew to become one of the most prominent statistical labs in the country. The Statistical Laboratory continues to be a research service institute which conducts research in statistical theory and methodology and promotes and fosters the use of sound statistical methods in University research through on-campus consulting.

The Statistics Section of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station began in 1935, and the Department of Statistics was formed in 1947. The department has since offered major work for the B.S., M.S., and the Ph.D. degrees in statistics and minor work to students taking major work in other departments. A co-major program has also been offered jointly with other departments.

Department Heads:

Raymond J. Jensen (1947-1950) Acting
Theodore A. Bancroft (1950-1972)
Herbert A. David (1972-1984)
Dean Isaacson (1984-2002)
Kenneth Koehler (2002-2003) Interim
Kenneth Koehler (2003-        )

 

Collection description

This collection (1931-1980, undated) contains contracts, final reports for projects, annual reports, grant approvals, correspondence, publications, census reports, and surveys.

 

Organization

This collection is organized chronologically.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Armed Services: "A General Survey of Effectiveness of TV Education, Comparative Study of Techniques Used in TV Communication Evaluation Studies by Means of the Utilization of the Army Mobile TV Unit Caravan, and A Review of Literature of Research in Radio, TV Education, and Other Related TV Broadcasting, Including a Study of Forward-Looking Current Practice"

undated

1

2

U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics: Progress reports and related correspondence

1931-1951

1

3

U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics: Progress reports and related correspondence

1945-1952, undated

1

4

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research: Progress reports and related correspondence

1946-1949

1

5

U.S. Department of Agriculture: "Textiles and Clothing Study"

1946-1951

1

6

Publication: "This is Merediths"

1948-1949, undated

1

7

Wallace's Farmer: "Source of Information Survey" and related correspondence

1947

1

8

Wallace's Farmer: "Source of Information Survey" and related correspondence

1947-1952, undated

1

9

The Rockefeller Foundation: "Crete Surveys"

1948-1989, undated

1

10

University of California and Oregon State College: "Housing Surveys" and related correspondence

1949-1950, undated

1

11

Atomic Energy Commission (Raw Materials): "Reports" by Ray Mickey, Alan Ross, and Howard Jespersen

1950s, undated

1

12

J.I. Case Company Project

1950-1951

1

13

Tennessee Fish and Game Commission Contract

1950-1952

1

14

Tennessee Valley Authority: Contracts, Projects, and related correspondence

1950-1958, undated

1

15

Chas. Pfizer and Co., Inc.: "Swine Survey"

1951

1

16

Operations Analysis Conference at Iowa State College

1951

2

1

U.S. Army: "Evaluating Applicability of TV to Army Training Subjects"

1951-1952

2

2

State of Ohio Department of Natural Resources: "Farm Land Disposition as it Pertains to Hunting Privileges in Ohio and Concerning Certain Attitudes of Persons Regarding Game Conservation", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft

1951-1952, undated

2

3

U.S. Department of Agriculture: "Food Expenditure, Home Production and Food Preservation, Rural Families in the North Central Region" and related correspondence, research conducted by Mollie Orshansky, Ennis C. Blake, and Mary Ann Moss

1951-1955, undated

2

4

Iowa State College and the University of Illinois: "Livestock Marketing Surveys", research conducted by N.V. Strand, E.M. Jacobs, A. Ross, and R.J. Jessen

1951-1955, undated

2

5

Contracts and Projects: Ford Foundation and TV Project

1952

2

6

University of Chicago: "Computing Project", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft

1952-1953

2

7

Atomic Energy Commission: Reports

1952-1954, undated

2

8

Atomic Energy Commission (Raw Materials): "The Application of Statistical Methods of Analysis in Geological Problems"

1952-1956, undated

2

9

Soil Conservation Service: Proposals and the Ford Foundation: "Empirical Evaluation of Decision Rules"

1952-1967, undated

2

10

Market Facts Incorporated: Correspondence

1953

2

11

Iowa State College: Annual reports and progress reports by M.R. Mickey

1953-1954

2

12

Camp Detrick reports

1954-1955, undated

3

1

Fish and Wildlife Service contracts and project agreements and related correspondence

1954-1955, undated

3

2

U.S. Air Force Wright Aero Space Development: Preliminary tests of significance and pooling procedure

1955

3

3

U.S. Air Force Wright Aero Space Development: Report,  "Derived Linear and Their Use in the Analysis of Randomized Experiments"

1955

3

4

U.S. Air Force Wright Aero Space Development: Preliminary tests of significance and pooling procedure

1955

3

5

U.S. Department of Defense: "Effect of Aerosol Heterogeneity on BW Munitions Requirements"

1955

3

6

Camp Detrick Technical Reports and related correspondence

1955-1956

3

7

Iowa State College Agricultural Experiment Station: "Relative Maintenance Costs and Satisfactions to Users of Carpeted and Smooth Surfaced Floors", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft

1956

3

8

U.S. Air Force: "Research in Statistical Theory", research conducted by John Gurland, S.K. Katti, and Roger McCullough

1956-1958

3

9

Agricultural Marketing Service Survey Projects

1956-1957

3

10

Tillage, Machinery: Contracts and project agreements (1 of 2)

1956-1958, undated

3

11

Tillage, Machinery: Contracts and project agreements (2 of 2)

1957-1959, undated

3

12

Iowa State College: Insect-related projects

1957-1959

3

13

Iowa State College: Animal medicine contracts and project agreements

1958-1960, undated

3

14

Army Ballistics Missile Agency: Contracts

1958-1960

3

15

Army Ballistics Missile Agency: Correspondence

1958-1961

4

1

Army Ballistics Missile Agency: Fiscal information and contracts

1958-1960, undated

4

2

Army Ballistics Missile Agency: Technical reports and related correspondence

1958-1961, undated

4

3

Ames Community School District, Ames, Iowa: "1976 School Census for Ames Community School", research conducted by Roy Hickman

1958-1976, undated

4

4

Fiscal File and Annual Reports for National Institutes of Health (NIH)

1959-1971, undated

4

5

National Science Foundation: "Final Report on Monte Carlo Study of Genetic Selection", research conducted by O. Kempthorne and L.N. Hazel

1961-1967

4

6

Census Project

1961-1969, undated

4

7

Census Contracts

1961-1971, undated

4

8

Department of Defense: "Industrial Security Manual for Safeguarding Classified Information" and related correspondence

1962-1966, undated

4

9

University of Wisconsin: "Rural Family Survey", research conducted by Norman V. Strand

1962-1971, undated

4

10

Coast Rica project and related correspondence

1963

4

11

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare: Statements of appointments

1963-1972

5

1

Correspondence with Case Western Reserve Cooperative Training Program regarding grant renewal and progress reports

1964-1968

5

2

Iowa State University Statistics Laboratory: "Statistics Theory of Genetic Populations", application for a grant in research in mathematical and statistical genetics, research conducted by Oscar Kempthorne

1965-1977

5

3

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare: Research in mathematical and statistical genetics, research conducted by Oscar Kempthorne and Edward Pollak

1965-1978, undated

5

4

National Science Foundation: "Mulitvariate Analysis and Symmetric Multiple Decision Problems", research conducted by Akio Kudo

1965-1967, undated

5

5

Correspondence with the U.S. Army Research Office at Durham with Duke University regarding the Rock Island Arsenal Project

1966

5

6

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "Problems in Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys", research conducted by Joseph Sedransk

1966-1970, undated

5

7

National Science Foundation: "Goodness of Fit Procedures", research conducted by Oscar Kempthorne

1966-1970, undated

5

8

U.S. Air Force Wright Aero Space Development: "Analysis of Variance and Related Research Procedures", research conducted by Oscar Kempthorne and George Zyskind

1966-1970, undated

5

9

Demonstration Survey: "Survey of Characteristics on Farms and Farm Operators in Central Boone - Story County Area", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft

1967-1968

5

10

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "Statistical Methodology and Applications to Bioassay", research conducted by C.P. Cox

1967-1969, undated

5

11

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Experiment Station, request for allocation of funds, by T.A. Bancroft

1967-1969

5

12

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census: "A Case Study for the 1970 World Census of Agriculture", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft

1967-1970

5

13

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Statistical Reporting Service: "Study of Theoretical and Applied Problems Relating to Sample Surveys and the Development of Methods of Making Objective Forecasts of Yield", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft and Norman Strand

1967-1973

5

14

Soil Conservation Service: Survey: "Drawing of Representative Samples of Land for Determining Conservation Needs"

1967-1975

5

15

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): "To Furnish the Plant Pest Control Division of ARS with Print Outs from the Conservation Needs Data", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft and Norman Strand

1968

5

16

Soil Conservation Service: "Missouri River Contract: River Basin Investigation", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft, Norman Strand, Dean Andre, and R.R. Bean

1968-1969

5

17

Institute of Public Affairs, University of Iowa: Correspondence regarding the authorization of the laboratory to provide administrative, statistical, and coding support to a research team conducting a survey of local government in Iowa

1969

5

18

University of Wisconsin: "Rural Family Survey", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft and Dean Roy

1969-1971, undated

5

19

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Institute: "Study of Theoretical and Applied Problems Relating to Sample Surveys and the Development of Methods of Making Objective Forecasts of Yield", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft, Norman Strand, R.R. Bean, and Dean Andre

1968-1970

5

20

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "Sequential Covariance Analysis and Sequential Design", research conducted by Philip C. Cox and Herbert T. David

1970

5

21

Wisconsin Railroad Association: "To Support a Project for the Purpose of Ascertaining Information Regarding the Attitudes and Knowledge of the Public in the State of Wisconsin Toward Public Utilities Engaged in the Transportation of Goods and People", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft and H.D. Baker

1970

5

22

Department of Health, Education and Welfare: Correspondence regarding education (sampling)

1970-1971

5

23

National Science Foundation Summer Institute Proposal: "Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics with Computer Applications for Secondary School Mathematics Teachers", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft, D.K. Hotchkiss, and R.D. Hickman

1970-1971, undated

5

24

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Statistical Reporting Service: "To Study New Sampling Techniques Using Auxiliary Data in the Design and Analysis of Surveys and the Development of Revised Sampling Materials", research conducted by T.A. Bancroft, R.R. Bean, and Dean Andre

1970-1975, undated

5

25

Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "Designing Surveys and Analysis of Survey Data", research conducted by Balkrishna V. Sukhatme

1971-1976

6

1

Department of Health, Education and Welfare: Instructions for completing information for new contract review

1972

6

2

Iowa Hospital Association: "Iowa Health Services Data System--Long Term Care Component", research conducted by William J. Kennedy

1972-1975

6

3

Iowa Employment Security Commission: "Impact of Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits to Public Employees at Lower Than Federal and State Levels"

1972-1973

6

4

United States Army Research Department, research conducted by William J. Kennedy

1973-1974

6

5

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): "Statistics Research", research conducted by Herbert David and Roy Hickman

1973-1974, undated

6

6

Iowa Employment Security Commission: "Problem Encountered in the Study of the Impact of Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits to Public Employees at Lower Than Federal and State Levels"

1973

6

7

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research: "New Techniques for Linear Statistical Inference", research conducted by Herbert David and David A. Harville

1973-1980, undated

6

8

Iowa Health Services Data System Supplemental Agreement

1974

6

9

Statistical Laboratory: "Preparation of Data for the Calculation of Estimates for Selected Health Related Occupations in the 438 Hospitals and Nursing Homes Omitted from the Initial CENIS II Labor Demand Survey"

1975, undated

6

10

Iowa Conservation Commission: "1975 Recreation Survey", research conducted by Roy Hickman

1975-1976

6

11

Office for Planning and Programming: "CETA Summer Youth Program"

1975-1977

6

12

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): "Statistical Reporting Service", research conducted by Fuller

1976-1977, undated

6

13

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): "USDA Citrus Study", research conducted by Fuller

1977

6

14

Iowa State University: "1977 Science Training", research conducted by Richard A. Groeneveld

1977

6

15

National Science Foundation: "Research in Science Education", research conducted by Philip C. Cox

1977-1978

6

16

Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "Double Discriminant Function and Estimation of Mean", research conducted by Chien-Pai Han

1978

6

17

National Science Foundation: "Aspects of Mathematical Population Genetics", research conducted by J.F.C. Kingman

1978-1979

6

18

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research: "Statistical Optimization Problems", research conducted by H.T. David

1978-1980

6

19

The Bureau of the Census: "To Investigate the Technique of 'Error Inoculation' as a Method of Preventing Statistical Disclosure in Census Data, and to Develop Methods for Analyzing Inoculated Data and Methods of Estimation for Seasonal Time Series Models", research conducted by Fuller

1980

6

20

Department of Public Instruction: "Sample Design and Selection and Weighting Activities for the Labor Demand Component of Cycle IV of the Career Education Needs Information System (CENIS)"

1980