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OF STATISTICS
Miss Donna Marie B.
de Mesa
numerical records
existed in China before 2000
bc.
The ancient Greeks held
censuses to be used as bases
for taxation as early as 594 bc.
bc
Carolingian kings
ordered surveys of
ecclesiastical holdings:
Pepin
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A
systematic collection of
data on the population and
the economy was begun in
the Italian city states of
Venice and Florence during
the Renaissance.
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The
term statistics,
derived from the word
state, was used to refer
to a collection of facts
of interest to the state.
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The
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Because
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Among
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Plague
epidemic
disease
a disease that spreads
rapidly through a
population, killing a great
many people, or an outbreak
of such a disease
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In
Initially
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In
Table
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Graunt used London bills of mortality
For
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Dividing
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Graunt
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Halley,
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for
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Following
the
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The
term statistics,
statistics which was used
until the 18th century as a shorthand for
the descriptive science of states
19th century statistics increasingly
identified with numbers.
By
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This
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Throughout
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statisticians of that time were not
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probabilistic
inference
from samples to a
population was almost
unknown in 19th
century social statistics.
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until the late 1800s that statistics became
concerned with inferring conclusions
from numerical data.
The movement began with Francis
Galtons work on analyzing hereditary
genius through the uses of what we would
now call regression and correlation
analysis and obtained much of its
impetus from the work of Karl Pearson.
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Pearson,
Pearson
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His
One
Story behind
A famous story has it that Gosset was
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Two
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The
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after
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Nowadays the ideas of
statistics are everywhere.
Descriptive statistics
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Statistical
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Statistical
forecasting
polling and surveys
Sports
Insurance
Gambling
research that makes any claim to being
scientific.
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Statistics
has indeed
become ingrained in our
intellectual heritage.
has become
known in the 20th century as
the mathematical tool for
analyzing experimental and
observational data. (Porter,
1986)
is the art of
learning from data.
(Ross, Intro. to
Probability & Statistics,
2004)