history

• Girolamo Cardano


  Italian mathematician, physician, and a gambler
• Girolamo Cardano


  Wrote his Liber de Ludo Aleae (The Book on Games of Chances)
• De Moivre


  (1667-1754) - discovered the equation for normal distribution (the bell-shaped distribution) and became the basis for inferential statistics
• Adolf Quetelet


  A Belgian astronomer who started applying statistics to psychology and education
• Adolf Quetelet lived during this period

  1796-1874
• Adolf Quetelet's work


  • Started anthropological measurements such as statures of soldiers, the intelligence quotients of children, and blood pressure of adults
• Laplace lived

  1749-1872
• Laplace published the Theorie Analytique des Probabilities

  1812
• Theorie Analytique des Probabilities

  • Laid the foundation for statistical theory
• Sir Francis Galton

  1822 - 1911
• Sir Francis Galton

  • Started the application of statistics to heredity
  • Discovered percentiles
• Karl Pearson


  • Developed the theory of correlation and regression
  • Developed sampling theory
• Sampling theory


  The study of how to select a sample from a population in order to make inferences about the population
• Karl Pearson developed the theory of correlation and regression, and sampling theory together with Galton
• William Goset

  Developed the method of making decision based on samples
• William Goset lived

  1876-1937
• Sir Ronald Fishers (1890-1962)

  Continued working on this and developed F-test and statistics for experimental design
• Liber de Ludo Aleae

  The Book on Games of Chances
• Liber de Ludo Aleae appeared the first known study of the principles of probability
• Liber de Ludo Aleae

  The first known study of the principles of probability