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The Nuova Cronica, a 14th-century history of Florence by the Florentine banker and official Giovanni Villani, includes much statistical information on population, ordinances, commerce and trade, education, and religious facilities and has been described as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history, [3] though neither ...
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Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the population from which the experimental sample was drawn.
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Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. [1] He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the economist George Stigler.
A typical statistics course covers descriptive statistics, probability, binomial and normal distributions, test of hypotheses and confidence intervals, linear regression, and correlation. [68] Modern fundamental statistical courses for undergraduate students focus on correct test selection, results interpretation, and use of free statistics ...
Statistics subsequently branched out into various directions, including decision theory, Bayesian statistics, exploratory data analysis, robust statistics, and non-parametric statistics. Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing made significant contributions to decision theory, which is widely employed, particularly in statistical quality control.
Among the critiques to this work is that it reads more as a work of sociology and political economy than as a technical account of how statistical operations developed, [5] and the critical balance Desrosières needs to maintain between defending the necessity and legitimacy of critical attacks on statistical concepts and methods in the name of sociopolitical progress and the stated need for ...