A Conversation with T. W. Anderson

Ted Anderson Was born on June 5, 1918, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received an A.A. degree from North Park College in Chicago in 1937, a B.S. in Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1939, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1942 and 1945, respectively. In 1945-1946, he was a Research Associate in the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. From 1946 to 1967 he was a faculty member of the Department of Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University, starting as an Instructor and, in 1956, becoming a Professor. He served as Chairman of the Department in 1956-1960 and 1964-1965, and as Acting Chairman in 1950-1951 and 1963. In 1967, he accepted his present position as Professor of Statistics and Economics at Stanford University. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 19471948, Editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics in 1950-1952, President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1963, and Vice President of the American Statistical Association in 1971-1973. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The following conversation took place in his office at Stanford one morning in late February 1985.