STATS TAO

• John Graunt (1620-1674)

  english tradesman

  Published records called "bills of morality"
• John Graunt (1620-1674)

  analyzed more than 50 years of data and created the first morality table
• Karl Friedrich Gauss(1777-1855)

  German Mathematician

  Used statistical methods in making predictions about the positions of planets in our solar system
• John Graunt(1620-1674)

  english tradesman
• Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)

  father of modern statistics
• Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)

  belgian astronomer
• Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)

  developed the idea of the "average man" through his studies of the belgian census
• Karl Pearson(1857-1936)

  English mathematician
• Karl Pearson(1857-1936)

  made important links between probability and statistics
• Ronald Aylmer fisher(20th century)

  british statistician
• Ronald Aylmer fisher(20th century)

  created the f-tool in inferential statistics
• George Gallup(1901-1984)

  american

  instrumental in making statistical polling - a common tool in political campaigns
• Statistiks

  comes from the italian word statista meaning statesman
• Statistiks was first used by Gottfried Achenwall(1719-1772)
• The word statistiks was introduced in england by Dr. E.A.W Zimmerman
• The word statistiks was popularized by Sr. John Sinclair in his work statistical account of scotland(1791-1799)