Development of Statistics

• John Graunt - in 1662 an Englishman observed the percentages of death from suicides, accidents and various diseases.
• Abraham Moivre - discovered the equation of the normal distribution in 1773.
• Carl Gauss - made its derivation from study errors in repeated measurements which he called it Gaussian distribution.
• Sir Fran Galton and Karl Pearson developed the theory of regression and correlation.
• Adolf Quetelet - referred to as the Father of Modern Statistics. He considered statistics as the Queen of the Sciences.
• William S. Gosset - developed the small-sample theory that was further developed by Sir Ronald Fisher.
• Sir Ronald Fisher was the most influential statistician of the 20th Century.