The Ingram Olkin papers consists of correspondence and proposals related to the creation of the Department of Statistics at MSU. Also include are there preliminary exams from 1969 to 1970.

The William D. Baten papers consist of reports and articles written by Baten about mathematics and statistics. There are also articles that relate to statistics and agriculture including topics on corn, weather, spore measurements, fertilizer, sugar beets, milk, potatoes, and surface area of fruits. There are also reports related to statistics and home economics. The reports are arranged alphabetically by title with multiple reports per folder.