Corporate Body

CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics (1954 - 1974)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From
1954
University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
To
1974
Functions
Industrial or scientific research
Reference No
CA 8459
Legal Status
Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Location
University of Adelaide, South Australia

Summary

In 1954, the CSIR/O Mathematical Statistics Section was granted divisional status, becoming the CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics. Twenty years later the Division underwent another name change, forming the Division of Mathematics and Statistics.

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From "CSIRO research for Australia" (1962) pdf page 64:
"The use of mathematical statistics in the planning of experiments and the analysis of their results is found in almost every field of modern science. Within ten years of the founding of C.S.I.R. a small service group, known as the Biometry Section, was set up. Its staff gave assistance to any of the Council's officers who required statistical help and advice in their work.

lnevitably, as the Organization began to grow, the demands on the Section increased. In 1940 a headquarters laboratory was established in Melbourne and Dr. E. A. Cornish (the present Chief of the Division of Mathematical Statistics) became leader of the group. In November, 1944, the University of Adelaide, which was anxious to promote a close liaison between the Section and its own Department of Mathematics, offered to house the Section in its grounds. Ever since then the group has been closely associated with the University, and Dr. Cornish now combines the office of Professor of Mathematical Statistics with his C.S.I.R.O. post.

The Section of Mathematical Statistics became a Division of C.S.I.R.O. in 1954. Nowadays the Division has officers stationed at Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Armidale, N.S.W., contributing through their statistical knowledge to many different research programmes. In addition, the Division has developed a number of fundamental research interests of its own, particularly in theoretical and meteorological statistics and in the expanding field of digital computing."

Timeline

 1941 - 1944 CSIR Biometrics Section
       1944 - 1954 CSIR/O Mathematical Statistics Section
             1954 - 1974 CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics
                   1974 - 1997 CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics
                         1997 - CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences

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