*DS001: "From Insects to Galaxies," Parts I & II, Jerzy Neyman (1979), 109 minutes

*DS002: "Mathematical Probability and Statistical Inference, Some Recollections from an Important Phase of Scientific Development," Harald Cramer (1980), 86 minutes

 DS003: "The Status of Statistics in 1940 as Viewed from Iowa State College and the Early Years of the Ph.D. Program at Ames," William Cochran (1978), 52 minutes

 DS004: "Reminiscences of a Mathematician," E. J. G. Pitman (1981), 70 minutes

 A four-part 1983 presentation by R. C. Bose:

• DS005: "The Early Years," R. C. Bose (1983), 53 minutes

• DS006: "The Middle Years," R. C. Bose (1983), 46 minutes

• DS007: "The Later Years," R. C. Bose (1983), 34 minutes

• DS008: "Recollections," R. C. Bose (1983), 29 minutes

 DS009: "The Teaching of Statistics in the Industrial Crisis that Confronts the Western World," W. Edwards Deming (1981), 54 minutes

 DS010: "Deming on Statistics in Industry: Implications for Statisticians and for Statistical Education," W. Edwards Deming with Gary McDonald (Chair), Fred C. Leone, Churchill Eisenhart, and Lloyd Nelson (1981), 49 minutes

*DS011: "Multivariate Analysis, Some Reminiscences on its Origin and Development," C. R. Rao (1981), 60 minutes

*DS012: "A Discussion with C. R. Rao," C. R. Rao, F. Anscombe, H. Chernoff, R. Gnanadesikan, U. Koehn, and H. O. Posten (1981), 51 minutes

*DS013: "The Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics," George Box (1982), 45 minutes

*DS014: "Practice and Theory; Some Personal Experiences," George Box, W. Hunter (1982), 43 minutes

*DS015: "Nonparametrics: The Early Years--Impressions and Recollections," Gottfried Noether (1983), 50 minutes

*DS016: "Some History and Reminiscences on Survey Sampling," Morris Hansen (1985), 53 minutes

*DS017: "Censuses and surveys, 50 years,” Morris Hansen

  DS018: "An Interview with Cuthbert Daniel," Parts I & II, J. Stuart Hunter (1988), 78 minutes

*DS019: "Broadening the Scope of Statistics and Statistical Education," Fred Mosteller (1987), 52 minutes

*DS020: "A Conversation," John Tukey, Fred Mosteller (1987), 52 minutes

*DS021: "The History of Sequential Analysis: Some Reminiscences," Herman Chernoff (1989), 58 minutes

*DS022: "A Conversation with Herman Chernoff," F. Anscombe, W. Dumouchel, and A. Gelfand (1989), 58 minutes

 DS023: “Churchill Eisenhart, A Statistician's Travel Through Space and Time: Recollections of Churchill Eisenhart,” (1989), 93 minutes

 DS024: "Likelihood and Sufficiency," David Blackwell (1988), 42 minutes

 DS025: "Statistics in the Natural Sciences at the Laboratory," Elizabeth Scott (1988), 57 minutes

*DS026: "Origins of Empirical Bayes," Herbert Robbins (1990), 41 minutes

*DS027: "A Conversation with Herbert Robbins," Herbert Robbins, Carl Morris, and Milton Sobel (1990), 55 minutes

 DS028: "From Observation to Inferences," Oscar Kempthorne (1991), 60 minutes

*DS029: "Two Centuries of Hypothesis Testing," Erich Lehmann (1992), 53 minutes

*DS030: "Teachers, Colleagues and Students: A Conversation with Erich Lehmann" (1992), 50 minutes

 DS031: "Variance Components," Franklin A. Graybill (1992), 34 minutes

 DS032: "A Conversation with Franklin A. Graybill," Franklin A. Graybill and Naitee Ting (1992), 39 minutes

 DS033: "Good Talking," I. J. Good and Persi Diaconis (1993), 50 minutes plus three 7-minute encores

 DS034 Part I: "A Discussion," John Tukey, Ram Gnanadesikan, and David Hoaglin (1994), 57 minutes

 DS034 Part II: "A Discussion,” John Tukey, Ram Gnanadesikan, and David Hoaglin (1994), 81 minutes

*DS035: "Statistical Inference: Some Themes and Their Recent Development," D. R. Cox (1994), 53 minutes

*DS036: "A Discussion with Friends," D. R. Cox, Nancy Reid, and P. McCullagh (1994), 49 minutes

 DS037: "A Conversation with Norman L. Johnson," Norman L. Johnson and Walter Smith (1995), 48 minutes

*DS038: "R. A. Fisher and Multivariate Analysis," by T. W. Anderson (1995), 58 minutes

*DS039: "A Conversation with Ted Anderson," (1995), 55 minutes

 DS040: "A Conversation with Dr. J. Stuart Hunter," J. Stuart Hunter (1996), 63 minutes

*DS041: "The History and Development of Meta-Analysis," Ingram Olkin (1997), 58 minutes

*DS042: “A Conversation with Ingram Olkin,” Ingram Olkin (1997), 55 minutes

 DS043: "A Conversation with Marvin Zelen," Marvin Zelen (1997), 60 minutes

 DS044: "A Conversation with Sam Greenhouse," Sam Greenhouse (1997), 56 minutes

*DS045: "A Perspective on the History of Statistical Education in the United States," Bob Hogg (1998), 59 minutes

*DS046: "A Conversation with Bob Hogg," Bob Hogg (1998), 57 minutes

 DS047: "A Conversation with Donald Fraser," (1999) 90 minutes

*DS048: "Politics and Federal Statistics," Janet Norwood (2000), 57 minutes

*DS049: "Federal Statistics: A Conversation with Janet Norwood," Janet Norwood, (2000), 57 minutes

 DS050:  "Reflections by Leslie Kish on a Lifetime of Survey Sampling," Leslie Kish (2001), 44 minutes

*DS051: "The Statistical Century," Brad Efron (2001)

*DS052: "A Conversation with Good Friends: Brad Efron," with Carl Morris and Rob Tibshirani (2001)

*+DS053: "A Journey Through Random Process Data Analysis: One Type to the Next," David R. Brillinger (2004), 45 minutes

*#DS054: "A Conversation with David R. Brillinger," with Bill Williams and Kjell Doksum (2004), 55 minutes

*+DS055: "A Futuristic View on a Half-Century of Statistics and Applied Probability," C. C. Heyde (2005), 55 minutes

*#DS056: "A Conversation with C. C. Heyde," with Sidney Resnick and Steven Kou (2005), 56 minutes 

*+DS057: "Objective Bayesian/Frequentist Statistics: My Way with Quantiles," Emanuel Parzen (2006), 54 minutes

*#DS058: "A Conversation with Emanuel Parzen," with H. Joseph Newton and Grace Wahba (2006), 56 minutes  

*+DS059: "The Evolving American Census," Barbara A. Bailar (2007), 54 minutes

*#DS060: "A Conversation with Barbara A. Bailar," with John C. Bailar III and Elizabeth Martin (2007), 64 minutes

*+DS061: "Statistics in Service to the Nation," Stephen E. Fienberg (2009), 64 minutes  

*#DS062: "A Conversation with Stephen E. Fienberg," with Miron L. Straf and Judith M. Tanur (2009), 68 minutes

*Filmed at the University of Connecticut, Storrs

+ Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians in Honor of Dr. David S. Salsburg

# Conversations with Distinguished Statisticians in Memory of Professor Harry O. Posten

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