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It includes some 17th- and 18th-century mathematicians and polymaths whose work is regarded as influential in shaping the later discipline of statistics. Also included are various actuaries , economists , and demographers known for providing leadership in applying statistics to their fields.
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.
The Nuova Cronica, a 14th-century history of Florence by the Florentine banker and official Giovanni Villani, includes much statistical information on population, ordinances, commerce and trade, education, and religious facilities and has been described as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history, [3] though neither ...
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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... Mathematicians: Statisticians Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total ...
These lists include items which are somehow related to statistics however are not included in this index: List of statisticians; List of important publications in statistics; List of scientific journals in statistics; Topic lists. Outline of statistics; List of probability topics; Glossary of probability and statistics; Glossary of experimental ...
John Aldrich (2008), Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics; John Aldrich (2008), Probability and Statistics on the Earliest Uses Pages; Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis (2008). "Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization: An illustrated chronology of innovations"
Lee-Ann C. Hayek, chief mathematical statistician at the National Museum of Natural History Martha S. Hearron (1943–2014), American statistician, helped found and later headed the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association