Monday, February 25, 2019

History of Statistics

17thCentury-

Graunt- Studied affairs of the state/ vital statistics of population 

Petty- economist, probability/ political/ insurance 

Pascal- Probability/ gambling 

Bernoulli- probability/ risks with vaccines 

18thCentury-

Laplace/ Gauss- normal curve 

19thCentury-

Auelelet- statistical analysis to human biology, social mechanics 

Galton- genetic regression/ variation 


20thCentury

Pearson- (father of modern statistics) natural selection using correlation, first academic department, journal helped develop chi square analysis 

Gossett- developed student T test 

Fisher- developed ANOVA and importance of experimental design 


20thCentury (later) 

Wilcoxon- studied pesticides, non-parametric equivalent of two sample tests

Kuskal, Wallis- non- parametric equivalent of the ANOVA 

Spearman- nonparametric equivalent of correlation coeffient 

Kendall- nonparametric equivalent of correlation coefficient 


Turkey- multiple comparisons procedure 

Dunnett- multiple comparisons procedure for control group 

Keuls- multiple comparisons procedure 

Computer tech- growth of investigation into new techniques 



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