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After World War II, Robbins taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946 to 1952, where he was one of the original members of the first statistics department in the USA^{[citation needed]}, and

Someone recently deleted the words above starting with "where" and preceding "and". I think I added this information. I must have thought it was just something everybody knew. I'll see if I can find something to cite. Probably something published in Statistical Science. In 1996, when the UNC statistics department observed its 50th anniversary, Herbert Robbins was an invited speaker, and I attended his two talks. I seem to recall that this fact was mentioned. As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say........ Michael Hardy (talk) 04:45, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As mentioned in the article, there was a bio of Robbins in Statistical Science (doi:10.1214/ss/1177013708). It says that he was one of the original members in the department of mathematical statistics at UNC Chapel Hill, but not whether or not this was the first statistics department in the country. Spacepotato (talk) 06:26, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]