Robert E. Chaddock

Robert Emmet Chaddock (April 16, 1879 – October 21, 1940) was an American sociologist and statistician specializing in population and vital statistics. During that same year, he worked with the boy's club of the Union Settlement in New York City, where he met his wife, Rose A. Fallbush (married 1910).

Academic career Chaddock taught economics at Columbia University from 1907 to 1909. He then taught for two years at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Columbia as an assistant professor of statistics in 1911. He was promoted to associate professor in 1912 and Professor in 1922. He chaired the department until shortly before his death. His presidential address was titled "The Function of Statistics in Undergraduate Training," in which he argued that social science students needed a foundation in statistics, comparable to introductory lab courses in the physical sciences. It soon became one of the most popular books in the field. He had been "under a physician's care for a nervous condition" and "distraught...over his wife's long ill health," according to The New York Times.