User:Gators bayou/sandbox

The Statistical Research Group of World War II was a research group at Columbia University focused on military problems during World War II. Abraham Wald, Allen Wallis, George Stigler and Milton Friedman were all part of the group in which 18 researchers participated.

Wallis, Stigler and Friedman met as graduate students at the University of Chicago.

Organization
The Statistical Research Group (SRG) at Columbia University was supported by the Applied Mathematics Panel (AMP) or the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), part of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD).

History
While teaching at Stanford during the war years, Allen Wallis wrote to a friend at the Census Bureau:

"Those of us teaching statistics in various departments here are trying to work out a curriculum adapted to the immediate statistical requirements of the war. It seems probably that a good many students with research training might by training in statistics become more useful for war than in their present work, or might increase their usefulness within their present fields.'"