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Call Number: SC0742
Creator:
Miller, Rupert G.
Title: Rupert G. Miller papers
Dates: 1949-1986
Physical Description:
37 Linear feet (68 boxes)
Summary: The papers pertain to Miller's professional career as researcher, professor, and author, with some materials from his days
as a student. Includes drafts of papers, lectures and books; research notes and files; conference materials and organizational
files; class files; minutes, reports, and other records pertaining to administrative duties at Stanford; and video tapes of
his Stanford lectures (1982).
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This collection was given to the Stanford University Archives by the estate of Rupert G. Miller in 2003.
This collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Rupert G. Miller Papers (SC0742). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Rupert Miller taught at Stanford University from 1959 until his death in 1986; he held a joint appointment between the Department
of Statistics and the School of Medicine (Division of Biostatistics), where he served as a consultant to researchers on data
analysis. He was chair of the statistics department from 1969-1972 and received one of the first dean's awards for superior
teaching in 1977.
Miller earned his B.A. in mathematics at Princeton in 1954 and his doctorate in statistics at Stanford in 1958. He taught
at Johns Hopkins in 1963-1964, was a Guggenheim fellow in 1972-1973, and served as editor of the Annals of Statistics. His
books include
Survival Analysis,
Simultaneous Statistical Inference, and
Beyond ANOVA, Basics of Applied Statistics.
The papers pertain to Miller's professional career as researcher, professor, and author, with some materials from his days
as a student. The collection includes class files containing lecture notes, syllabi, exams, and other materials; departmental
files containing minutes, memoranda, reports, and other records; grant files, conference papers, research reports, and other
professional records; drafts of articles and books, as well as reprints of his journal articles; and videotapes of his lectures
from Statistics 116, 1982. The following subject groupings have been identified: Academic Career, Conferences and Organizations,
Manuscripts and Reports, Side Projects and Reviews, Reprints, and Audio Visual Materials.
Miller, Rupert G.
Stanford University. Department of Statistics. Faculty.
Mathematical statistics.
Medical statistics
Statistics--Study and teaching.