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The beginning of teaching in statistics in the Middle East
Technical University dates back to early 1960s. In the
academic year of 1962- 1963, the Department of Economics and
Statistics of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences offered
courses on statistics and probability with special emphasis on
sampling techniques, statistical inference, correlation and
regression analysis. The department was reorganized in the
academic year of 1975- 1976 as the Department of Economics,
and the Department of Applied Statistics. In 1976- 1977 a new
department, the
Department
of Operational Research and Statistics was founded within
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The teaching staff in the new department comprised of a
Professor, 2 Associate Professors, 2 Assistant Professors, 2
Instructors, and 3 Assistants. Teaching in statistics in these
departments continued until the 1981- 1982 academic year. With
the creation of the Higher Educational Council (Yüksek Öğretim
Kurulu, YÖK) in 1981, the department of Applied Statistics was
combined with the department of Operational Research and
Statistics and was named as the Department of Statistics in
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
In the academic year of 1983- 1984, the Department had
employed 2 Professors, one with an educational background
formerly in mechanical engineering and later in Operational
Research, and the other, a statistician imported from the
department of applied statistics upon its closure until 1982.
Among other members of the teaching staff, there were 3
Associate Professors, 6 Assistant Professors, 4 Instructors,
and 5 Assistants. An interesting feature of the Department of
Statistics at that time was the composition of its academic
staff. About half of the staff was transferred from the
Department of Applied Statistics and the other half was with
Operations Research origin. The faculty members of Operations
Research origin have joined the Department of Industrial
Engineering in
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