Harold Hotelling papers, 1910-1975

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Bowley, Arthur K.


Box 1 Bundy, McGeorge


Box 1 Cain, Harry P.


Box 1 Camp, Burton H.


Box 1 Cowles, Alfred, 3rd


Box 1 Crane, Robert T.


Box 1 Debye, Peter


Box 1 Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler


Box 1 Flexner, Abraham


Box 1 Fisher, Irving


Box 1 Friedman, Milton


Box 1 Frisch, Ragnar


Box 1 Glover, James


Box 1 Graham, Frank P.


Box 1 Graves, Lawrence M.


Box 1 Kelley, Truman L.


Box 1 Mayer, Joseph


Box 1 Mills, Frederick C.


Box 1 Odum, Howard W.


Box 1 Pearson, Egon S.


Box 1 Proxmire, William


Box 1 Pusey, Nathan M.


Box 1 Richardson, Roland George Dwight


Box 1 Sachs, Alexander


Box 1 Sanford, Terry


Box 1 Schultz, Henry


Box 1 Smith, Walter L.


Box 1 Spurr, William A.


Box 1 Taylor, James S.


Box 1 Thompson, James S.


Box 1 Van Sickle, John V.


Box 1 Walker, Helen M.


Box 1 Watkins, Ralph J.


Box 1 Weaver, Warren


Box 1 Wheeler, John A.


Box 1 Wilbur, Ray Lyman


Box 1 Wilks, Samuel S.


Box 1 Wilson, Edwin B.

Series II: Arranged Correspondence



Box 2 A Miscellaneous


Box 2 B Miscellaneous


Box 2 Barr, A.S.


Box 2 Book Binding


Box 2 Bartlett, M.S.


Box 2 Bernhard, A.


Box 2 Bose, R.C.


Box 2 C Miscellaneous


Box 2 Camp, B.H.


Box 2 Chu, J.T.


Box 2 Cochran, W.G.


Box 2 Cox, G.


Box 2 D Miscellaneous


Box 2 Deming, W.E


Box 2 Dwyer, P.S.



Box 3 E Miscellaneous


Box 3 F Miscellaneous


Box 3 Factor Analysis


Box 3 Fisher, R.A.


Box 3 Flores, A.M.


Box 3 G Miscellaneous


Box 3 Ghurye, S.G.


Box 3 Grubbs, F.E.


Box 3 Gupta, S.S.


Box 3 H Miscellaneous


Box 3 Hicks, J.R


Box 3 Hoeffding, W.


Box 3 Hsu, P.L.


Box 3 I Miscellaneous


Box 3 Ito, P.K.


Box 3 J Miscellaneous


Box 3 K Miscellaneous


Box 3 Katz, L.


Box 3 Kelley, T.L.


Box 3 Kendall, M.G.



Box 4 King, A.K.


Box 4 Koopmans, T.


Box 4 Kozakiewicz, W.


Box 4 Krishnaiah, P.R.


Box 4 L Miscellaneous


Box 4 M Miscellaneous


Box 4 Madow, W.G.


Box 4 Mahalanobis, P.C., 1938-1944


Box 4 Mahalanobis, P.C.


Box 4 Mahalanobis, Snedecor, King, Panikar


Box 4 Marsaglia, G.


Box 4 Mc Miscellaneous


Box 4 Mittra, P.C.


Box 4 Morrison, N.


Box 4 Morrow, D.J.


Box 4 N Miscellaneous


Box 4 Neyman, J.



Box 5 0 Miscellaneous


Box 5 Ogawa, J.


Box 5 P Miscellaneous


Box 5 Passport Correspondence & Security Staff, 1953 & 1954


Box 5 Peach, P.


Box 5 Pfouts, W.R.


Box 5 Pitman, E.J.G.


Box 5 Political Letters


Box 5 Preinreich, G.A.D.


Box 5 Q Miscellaneous


Box 5 R Miscellaneous


Box 5 Robbins, H.E.


Box 5 Roodkowsky, N.D.


Box 5 Roy, S.N.


Box 5 Rubin, E.


Box 5 S Miscellaneous


Box 5 Stacy, E.W.


Box 5 Schuyler, G.L.


Box 5 Smith, J.D.


Box 5 Solomon, H.



Box 6 T Miscellaneous


Box 6 Thomson, G.H.


Box 6 U Miscellaneous


Box 6 V Miscellaneous


Box 6 W Miscellaneous


Box 6 Wald, A.


Box 6 Wallis, W.A.


Box 6 Wallis-Fry


Box 6 Wolfowitz, J.


Box 6 Y-Z Miscellaneous

Series III: Personal Correspondence



Box 7 A-G


Box 7 H-Z


Box 7 Condolences: A-H


Box 7 Condolences: J-Z


Box 7 Memorial Letters, Material


Box 7 Christmas and Sympathy cards

Series IV: Addresses/Memos



Box 8 Address List (index cards)


Box 8 Addresses


Box 8 Mailing list for Reprints (index cards)


Box 8 Memos (notes, scratchwork)

Series V: Organizations/Publications



Box 9 American Associations for the Advancement of Science


Box 9 AAAS Fisher Memorial Committee


Box 9 American Association of University Professors


Box 9 American Journal of Economics and Sociology


Box 9 American Statistical Association


Box 9 ASA Committee of Fellows - Details as to Candidates


Box 9 Annals of Mathematical Statistics



Box 10 American Mathematical Society


Box 10 Air Force Meeting, 7 May 1963


Box 10 Air Research and Development


Box 10 Courant Committee


Box 10 Reports and Correspondence (3)



Box 11 Carnegie Corporation of New York Grants


Box 11 Applicants Who Never Held These Grants


Box 11 Financial Reports of Work Done Under Grants


Box 11 Keppel, Dollard, Lester, Jessup (correspondence)


Box 11 Past Holders of Grants


Box 11 Reports



Box 12 Columbia University Clairvoyance, Telepathy: Matching Distribution


Box 12 Columbia University Correspondence


Box 12 Columbia University Economics Department


Box 12 Columbia University Fellowship and Assistantship Applications


Box 12 Columbia University Funding Information and Requests


Box 12 Columbia University Graduate Record Exam


Box 12 Columbia University Parapsychology


Box 12 Columbia University Statistical Research Grop (S.R.G.) Administration


Box 12 Columbia University S.R.G Alternatives to T


Box 12 Columbia University S.R.G Bombsights Atlantic City


Box 12 Columbia University S.R.G. Bombsight Accuracy £1


Box 12 Columbia University S.R.G. Bombsight £2


Box 12 Columbia University S.R.G Charts


Box 12 Columbia University S.R.G Memoranda Within Group


Box 12 Columbia University Students



Box 13 Econometric Society (2)


Box 13 Econometrica


Box 13 Elisha Mitchell Society


Box 13 Ford Foundation Advisory Committee (2)


Box 13 General Electric Company


Box 13 Havard University Ad Hoc Committee


Box 13 Institute for International Education



Box 14 Institute of Mathematical Statistics, To Dec. 31, 1941


Box 14 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Agendas


Box 14 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Committee on History of Statistics


Box 14 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Committee on Teaching and Placement of Statisticians Correspondence (4)


Box 14 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Draft for National Roster Organization


Box 14 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Organization



Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Correspondence


Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Memoranda


Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Memoranda/Correspondence


Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Pre-1944


Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Proposals for Statistical Institute, Columbia University


Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Report, 1947


Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Reports (2)


Box 15 I.M.S Committee on the Teaching of Statistics Southern Regional Education Board



Box 16 Institute National D'Etude du Travail


Box 16 Institute for Research in Social Science (2)


Box 16 Institute of Statistics


Box 16 International Congress of Mathematicians


Box 16 Inter-American Statistical Institute


Box 16 International Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences



Box 17 International Statistical Institute (2)


Box 17 International Statistical Institute Conference, 1960


Box 17 International Statistical Institute Conference, 1961, 1967


Box 17 Journal of the American Statistical Association


Box 17 National Academy of Sciences


Box 17 National Recovery Administration


Box 17 National Science Foundation


Box 17 Personnel Journal


Box 17 Princeton Bicentennial: Problems of Mathematics, Dec. 1946



Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Appointments


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Contract and Renewal Applications


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Correspondence


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research European Trip, 1953


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research European Trip, 1957


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Finances and Plans


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Miscellaneous


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Operating Rules


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Personnel


Box 18 U.S. Office of Naval Research Problems



Box 19 U.S. Office of Naval Research Reports, 1947-52



Box 20 U.S. Office of Naval Research Reports, 1953-1959


Box 20 U.S. Office of Naval Research Miscellaneous



Box 21 U.S. Civil Service Commission


Box 21 U.S. Office of Scientific Personnel


Box 21 Watumull Foundation


Box 21 Publishers


Box 21 Statistical Organizatons Meetings, Conferences



Box 22 University of North Carolina Administrative Transportation


Box 22 University of North Carolina Advisory committee


Box 22 University of North Carolina Appointments


Box 22 University of North Carolina Book Exchange


Box 22 University of North Carolina Budget: general, 1946 & 1947


Box 22 University of North Carolina Budget: general, 1947-1951


Box 22 University of North Carolina Correspondence


Box 22 University of North Carolina Courses, 1948 & 1949


Box 22 University of North Carolina Department Meetings


Box 22 University of North Carolina Departmental Reports


Box 22 University of North Carolina European Trips, 1951 & 1953


Box 22 University of North Carolina Fellowship Information and Correspondence


Box 22 University of North Carolina Fellowship and Assistantship Applications, 1956


Box 22 University of North Carolina Graduate Council and Administrative Board



Box 23 University of North Carolina Grad. S-Z


Box 23 University of North Carolina Grad Students


Box 23 University of North Carolina Graduate Programs for Statistics Majors, Regional Conference on Statistics. R, VA


Box 23 University of North Carolina Mathematical Statistics, Applications for Graduate Appointment, 1948


Box 23 University of North Carolina Memoranda


Box 23 University of North Carolina Miscellaneous Directories


Box 23 University of North Carolina New Building


Box 23 University of North Carolina North Carolina State College, 1941


Box 23 University of North Carolina Offices and Office Furniture


Box 23 University of North Carolina PhD Candidates


Box 23 University of North Carolina Publicity


Box 23 University of North Carolina Publicity - Future


Box 23 University of North Carolina Sabbatical Leave


Box 23 University of North Carolina Salary Policies


Box 23 University of North Carolina Statistics Department


Box 23 University of North Carolina Statistics Department Directories


Box 23 University of North Carolina Statistics for Students Outside Regular Graduate Group


Box 23 University of North Carolina University Research Funds


Box 23 University of North Carolina War Problems


Box 23 University of North Carolina Working Rules



Box 24 University of North Carolina Statistics Colloquium


Box 24 University of North Carolina Correspondence


Box 24 University of North Carolina Institute of Statistics, 1945, 1946 and earlier


Box 24 University of North Carolina Air Force - Design of Experiments


Box 24 University of North Carolina Air Force - Multivariate


Box 24 University of North Carolina Army Air Force Problems


Box 24 University of North Carolina Cloud Seeding


Box 24 University of North Carolina Early Planning

Series VI: Manuscripts


Subseries VI.1: Works by Hotelling



Box 25 Analysis of a Complex of Statistical Variables in Prinical Components


Box 25 The Behavior of Some Standard Statistical Tests Under Non-Standard Conditions


Box 25 Causes of Birth Rate Fluctuations


Box 25 Correlation


Box 25 The Correlation Coefficient and Its Transformations: A New Look


Box 25 Cycles and Forecasts


Box 25 Depreciation


Box 25 Different Meanings of Experimental Design


Box 25 Dr Perters' Criticism of Fisher's Statistics


Box 25 Econometric Paper No. 19-B


Box 25 Effect of a Tax on the Price of an Isolated Monopolized Article


Box 25 The Efficiency of the Sample Median


Box 25 Fitting an Mixture of Two Univariate Normal Distributions by the Method of Moments ..


Box 25 Future Research Workers Need Mathematics Now


Box 25 A Generalized T Measure of Multivariate Dispersion


Box 25 The General Welfare, to 1938



Box 26 The Impact of R.A. Fisher on Statistics


Box 26 Mathematical Economics


Box 26 The Mathematical Training of Social Scientists


Box 26 The Measure of the Hypersphere and Its Interior


Box 26 Memorandum on the Science of Statistics


Box 26 The Moments of the Sample Median


Box 26 The Moniac


Box 26 More Research Needed Here


Box 26 The Most Predictable Criterion


Box 26 Multivariate Analysis


Box 26 Multivariate Methods on Testing Complex Eqipment


Box 26 Multiple Partial Correlation


Box 26 New Light on the Correlation Coefficient and Its Transforms


Box 26 New State Tax


Box 26 Note on Matric Theorem of A. Craig


Box 26 On the Nature of Supply and Demand Functions, et al


Box 26 The Place of Statistics in the University


Box 26 Problems of Prediction


Box 26 Professor I. Fisher's Proposed Income Tax Revision


Box 26 Prosperity Through Increased Production


Box 26 Rank Correlations, etc, 1935 & 1936


Box 26 Relations Between Two Sets of Variates, 1936


Box 26 Relations of the Newer Multivariate Statistical Method to Factor Analysis



Box 27 H. Schultz as Economist


Box 27 Sir Ronald Fisher 1890 - 1963, the Early Years


Box 27 Some Mathematical Contributions to Economics, (Max.Min.)


Box 27 Some New Methods in Matrix Calculation


Box 27 Statistical Inference(2)


Box 27 Statistical Theory


Box 27 Stochastic Processes and Difference Equations


Box 27 Summary of the Scientific Activity of G. Leti


Box 27 Tubes in n-space


Box 27 Utility Functions and Applications


Box 27 Why We Have the Two-Party System


Subseries VI.2: Works by others (by author)



Box 28 Agricultural Economics (Conference)


Box 28 Allais, M.


Box 28 American Standard Association


Box 28 Anderson, T.T.


Box 28 Army Air Force Training Command


Box 28 Atchinson, W.F.


Box 28 Bain


Box 28 Bargman, R


Box 28 Bechhofer, R.E. et al


Box 28 Berger, A. and Gold, R.


Box 28 Bowker, A.


Box 28 Bradley, R.A. and Terry, M.E.


Box 28 Brown, F.F. and Masket, A.V.


Box 28 Byl, A.



Box 29 Carlson, J.L.


Box 29 Chacko, G.K.


Box 29 Churchman, C.W.


Box 29 Committee on the Teaching of Statitics


Box 29 Cowan, T.A.


Box 29 Cowles, A.


Box 29 Crutcher, H.L.


Box 29 Debreu, G.


Box 29 Demand for Related Goods


Box 29 Divisia, F.


Box 29 Dorfman, R.


Box 29 Dugue, D.


Box 29 Duncan, D.B.



Box 30 Emmons, H.W.


Box 30 Eyraud, D.H.


Box 30 Fand, D.I.


Box 30 Frankel, L. and Stock, J.S.


Box 30 Freeman, H.


Box 30 Frisch, R.


Box 30 Furbush, M.


Box 30 Geisser, S.


Box 30 Halperin, M.


Box 30 Hamilton, C.H.


Box 30 Hildreth, C.


Box 30 Hoeffding, W.


Box 30 Horton, W.H.


Box 30 Houthakker, H.S.


Box 30 Hunter, J.S.


Box 30 Hutt, W.H.


Box 30 Ihm, P.


Box 30 Institute of Statistics



Box 31 Johnson, R.B.


Box 31 Jones, L.K.


Box 31 Kaiser, H.F.


Box 31 Kempthorne, 0.


Box 31 Kettenring, J.R.


Box 31 Kimball, B.F.


Box 31 Koopmans, T.


Box 31 Latane, H.A.


Box 31 Location of Competitors


Box 31 Lord, F.M.


Box 31 Lucas, H.L.


Box 31 Lum, Mary D.


Box 31 McKenzie, L.W.


Box 31 Meany, G. and Thomas, R.J.


Box 31 Mudgett, B.D.


Box 31 Morrison, D.F.



Box 32 Morrison, N. (2)


Box 32 Morrow, D.J.


Box 32 Murthy, V.K.


Box 32 National Research Council


Box 32 N.Y. State Public Service Commission


Box 32 Nicholson


Box 32 Ogawa, J. (2)


Box 32 Olkin


Box 32 Payne, L.E. et al


Box 32 Pfouts, R.W.


Box 32 Price, D.O.



Box 33 Roodkowsky, N.D. and Thorndike, R.L. (5)


Box 33 Roy, S.N.


Box 33 Simon, H.A


Box 33 Sistani, M.


Box 33 Smith, W.L.


Box 33 Social Science Research Council


Box 33 Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.


Box 33 Stacy, E.W.


Box 33 Stein, C.


Box 33 Stuart, A.


Box 33 Tufts College


Box 33 Uspensky, J.V.


Box 33 Wald, A.


Box 33 Walker, V.W.


Box 33 Wilks, S.S.


Box 33 Williams, E.


Box 33 Wilson, E.B.


Box 33 Yang, Chung-How


Subseries VI.3: Chapters from Hotelling's Books



Box 34 Chapter 1 (5): (drafts and research)



Box 35 Chapter 2 (2)


Box 35 Chapter 3


Box 35 Chapter 4


Box 35 Chapter 5


Box 35 Chapters 5-7


Box 35 Chapter 6


Box 35 Chapter 7



Box 36 Chapter 9 (3)


Box 36 Chapter 10 (2)


Box 36 Chapters 11-12


Box 36 Chapter 11 (3)



Box 37 Chapter 12


Box 37 Chapter 13 (3)


Box 37 Chapter 14 (2)


Box 37 Chapter 15



Box 38 Chapter 16 (2)


Box 38 Chapter 17


Box 38 Chapter 18


Box 38 Chapter 19


Box 38 Chapter 20



Box 39 Chapter 21 (2)


Box 39 Chapter 22


Box 39 Chapter 23


Box 39 Chapter 24 (2)


Box 39 Chapters 25-26


Box 39 Miscellaneous 1 - Least Squares (2)


Box 39 Miscellaneous (2-5)



Box 40 Reference for books


Box 40 Bibliographies


Box 40 Corrections


Box 40 Footnote References

Series VII: Research Data



Box 41 Agriculture I, II, III, IV


Box 41 Building Industry


Box 41 Correlation Research, 1953


Box 41 Experimental Determination ..


Box 41 Experiments in Coin Tossing


Box 41 Hip Girth and Stature


Box 41 Miscellaneous


Box 41 Rare Mathematical Notes


Box 41 Seattle Elections Data, 1910-1919


Box 41 T2

Series VIII: Titled Problems



Box 42 Accelerated Iterative Calculation of Principal Components Analysis into Principal Components


Box 42 Analysis into Principal Components: --1) Unpublished material ;--1) Calculations ;--1) Meetinf in December 1931 of Unitary Traits Committee


Box 42 City Planning


Box 42 Comparison of Two Tetrachoric Tables


Box 42 Correlation with Incomplete Data


Box 42 Couchy Distribution, esp


Box 42 Calculations Relating to: "Differential Equations and Population Estimates" 1927


Box 42 Carious Teeth and Pregnancy, 1934


Box 42 Discriminant Functions


Box 42 Distributions of Quadratic Forms (2)


Box 42 Effects of Non-Normality


Box 42 Exploitation of Irreplaceable Assets


Box 42 Least Squares Problems of Col. Wm. F. Bark



Box 43 Manifolds of Orthagonal ennuples


Box 43 Methods of Matric Calculation (3)


Box 43 Multiple R


Box 43 Multivariate Analysis



Box 44 Multivariate Periodogram Analysis


Box 44 Multivariate Analysis of Variance


Box 44 Population Problems


Box 44 Sampling Errors of Trends


Box 44 Selection of Predictors


Box 44 Spaces of Statistical Parameter


Box 44 Tinter, G. Various problems


Box 44 The Transformation of Statistics


Box 44 Truncated Normal Distributions


Box 44 Volume of a Thin Tube in a Curved Space

Seris IX: Miscellaneous Problems

And 1 oversize folder



Box 45 Miscellaneous Problems, 1923-1965


Box 45 Unsolved Problems


Box 45 Miscellaneous Problems, undated, (2)

Series X: Lectures and Courses



Box 46 Lectures by Hotelling


Box 46 Lectures by Hotelling: Economics of Obsolescence and Research


Box 46 Lectures (by others) (2)



Box 47 Advanced Mathematical Economics


Box 47 Advanced Mathematical Statistics


Box 47 Approximation Techniques


Box 47 Correlation, Contingency and x2


Box 47 Determinants and Matrices


Box 47 Least Squares and Time Series


Box 47 Least Squares and Time Series - Exams



Box 48 Mathematical Economics (3)


Box 48 Mathematical Theory of Probability and Statistics


Box 48 Statistics



Box 49 Statistical Inference, 1927


Box 49 Statistical Inference


Box 49 Statistical Inference - Exams


Box 49 Stochastic Process


Box 49 Theses


Box 49 Time Series Analysis


Box 49 Exam Questions


Box 49 Grade Reports


Box 49 Photographs of Students

Series XI: Employment and Biographical



Box 50 Employment Opportunities


Box 50 Misc. Personnel Problems


Box 50 Prospective Personnel


Box 50 Refugees and Other Europeans (wanting jobs)


Box 50 Research Men in Stochastic Process


Box 50 Secretarial Prospects


Box 50 Students and Ex-Students Wanting Jobs



Box 51 Certificates


Box 51 Biographical materials


Box 51 Clippings


Box 51 Financial/Personal


Box 51 Passports and secutiry clearance

Series XII: Printed Material



Box 52 Works by Hotelling



Box 53 Works by Hotelling



Box 54 Works by other authors



Box 55 Works by other authors



Box 56 Works by other authors



Box 57 Works by other authors



Box 58 Works by other authors