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The earliest recorded use of statistics was in the 5th century BCE. The ancient Greeks were attempting to scale a wall, and determined the necessary height for their ladders by counting the bricks in the wall. Since that time, the science of statistics has expanded to include both the collection of the data and the mathematical analysis thereof.
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What other sciences have been responsible for the development of statistics?
What other sciences have been responsible for the development of statistics?
Who are the persons involved in the development of statistics?
Statistics and the theory of probabilities have developed together. The list of contributers are very long. I have included in this summary a number of links, some provide the names and achievements of recent statisticians. The development of statistics in terms of new theory and application continues today at a vigorous pace, in part due to the growth of electronic computation and communications. Statistics developed both within mathematical and scientific fields. Early development of statistics were done by Pierre de Fermet (1601-1665), Abraham DeMoivre (1667-1754), Roger Cotes (1682-1716), Rev. Thomas Bayes (1702-1761). Later advances in probability and statistics were made by Carl Gauss (1777-1855), Adolphe Quetet (1796-1874) and Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827). The formal recognition of statistics as independent discipline, and deserving of an independent department at an university was a major advance in statistics. The Department of Statistics was founded by Carl Pearson, in 1911 at University College London. Some of the statisticians well recognized for their contributions in the 20th century are Jerzy Neyman, R.A Fisher, G.E.P. Box, C.P. Rao, J. Tukey and W. Deming. Probability theory developed along with statistics. Pascal, Bernoulli and Markov are earlier mathematicians in the development of probability theory. My apologies for not including others who have contributed (and many still are alive and contributing) to the development of statistics. I note that amazon.com lists a number of books for sale on this subject. You can find much more information in the related links. See related links.
What does cosmogony mean?
a theory or story of the origin and development of the universe, the solar system, or the earth-moon system.
What is the Applications of statistics in banking and finance?
statistics has nothing to do with real banking but it has scope in research and development department as in every r & d sector it uses tables and graphs and measures of central tendency to show the real result or expected one etc.
Types of statistics?
There are two types of statistics. One is called descriptive statistics and the other is inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics is when you use numbers. Inferential statistics is when you draw conclusions or make predictions.
