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History
1847 University of Iowa is founded.
1902-03 The first actuarial course, entitled "The Mathematical Theory of Insurance," is taught by Dr. Westfall. (Actuarial courses have been taught at Iowa every year since 1913.)
1910 Department of Mathematics offers "Least Squares and Statistics," the first statistics course at Iowa.
1965 Department of Statistics is established.
1981 Actuarial Science major is established; department is renamed: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science.

"On the History of Statistics and Actuarial Science at The University of Iowa"
presented as part of the Fall 2003 colloquia series
by Robert V. Hogg on October 2, 2003

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