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  2. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Statistics, in the modern sense of the word, began evolving in the 18th century in response to the novel needs of industrializing sovereign states.. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states, particularly demographics such as population.

  3. List of important publications in statistics - Wikipedia

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    Description: Peirce and Jastrow use logistic regression to estimate subjective probabilities of subjects's judgments of the heavier of two measurements, following a randomized controlled repeated measures design. [1] [2] Importance: Pioneered elicitation of subjective probabilities. [1] [2] Truth and Probability. Author: Frank P. Ramsey

  4. Founders of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the population from which the experimental sample was drawn.

  5. Central Board of Secondary Education - Wikipedia

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    For the Class 10 and Class 12 exams, CBSE (along with the marks obtained) includes the positional grade obtained by the student, which is dependent on the average performance of the students in that subject. Consequently, the cutoffs required to obtain a particular grade vary every year.

  6. Statistics - Wikipedia

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    "Statistics is both the science of uncertainty and the technology of extracting information from data." - featured in the International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. [5] Statistics is the discipline that deals with data, facts and figures with which meaningful information is inferred. Data may represent a numerical value, in form of ...

  7. Karl Pearson - Wikipedia

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    He wrote on Passion plays, [8] religion, Goethe, Werther, as well as sex-related themes, [9] and was a founder of the Men and Women's Club. [10] Pearson with Sir Francis Galton, 1909 or 1910. Pearson was offered a Germanics post at King's College, Cambridge. Comparing Cambridge students to those he knew from Germany, Karl found German students ...

  8. Outline of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Statistics is a field of inquiry that studies the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines , from the physical and social sciences to the humanities ; it is also used and misused for making informed decisions in all areas of business and government .

  9. Category:History of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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