Kempthorne, published “Design and Analysis of Experiments” in 1952—the first comprehensive treatment of experimental design at a “theoretical” level intended for graduate studies and research in this field.
Kempthorne
Oscar Kempthorne Interview Now on YouTube
In 1991, alumni and friends of Iowa State University’s Department of Statistics and Statistical Laboratory provided support for filming an interview with Oscar Kempthorne, notable statistician and statistics professor at Iowa State University. The video is now available here and on YouTube.
Using the ASA Archives
In the spring of 2009, six statistics students used the ASA archives, located in the special collections department of Iowa State University’s library, to produce posters about statistical topics or statisticians of note. The posters were presented at JSM in Washington, DC.
Some topics and statisticians were easier to research than others. Dai-Trang Le wrote about George Snedecor, for whom there was a large number of boxes from which to pull information (almost too much information).


