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Founders of statistics. 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.
It includes the founders of statistics and others. 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.
Ronald Fisher. Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS [5] (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. [6] [7] For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science ...
History of statistics. 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. This was later extended to include all collections of ...
Karl Pearson FRS FRSE [1] ( / ˈpɪərsən /; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936 [2]) was an English eugenicist, mathematician, and biostatistician. [3] [4] He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. [5] [6] He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College ...
Milton Friedman ( / ˈfriːdmən / ⓘ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. [4] With George Stigler, Friedman was among the ...
C. R. Rao. Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS (10 September 1920 – 22 August 2023) was an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. [4] He was professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and research professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao was honoured by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded ...
Guinness Brewery. William Sealy Gosset (13 June 1876 – 16 October 1937) was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who served as Head Brewer of Guinness and Head Experimental Brewer of Guinness and was a pioneer of modern statistics. He pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis with an economic approach to the logic of ...