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Statistics & Biometry Statistics and Biometry Hosting
Visiting Academic The Statistics and Biometry Disciplines are
honoured to host Professor K. Sagary Nokoe visiting from February 13 until
March 23rd, 2002.
The Statistics and Biometry was founded by Professor Arthur Asquith Rayner in 1949. Professor Rayner, a New Zealander, arrived in Petermaritzburg and took up the newly formed post of Professor of Biometry in the Faculty of Agriculture and the Agricultural Technical Services. The first ever Biometry major for BSc Agric. degree in South Africa and probably the world was thus offered at the Pietermaritzburg campus of the University of Natal. Statistics at this time was taught by the Mathematics. In 1974 the Faculty of Agriculture was transferred from the Agriculture Technical Services and thus Professor Rayner took over the teaching of Statistics from the Mathematics department and so was born the Statistics and Biometry, dually affiliated to the Faculties of Science and Agriculture . As of January 1999 the University of KwaZulu-Natal abolished the departmental structure and opted instead for schools. To this end the former departments of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science have merged to form the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Information Technology. At the same time the faculties of Science and Agriculture also merged to become the Faculty of Science and Agriculture. While other universities emulated the University of KwaZulu-Natal's offering of Biometry, these have subsequently fallen away, and once again the Pietermaritzburg campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal is the only university in South Africa where Biometry can be studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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