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  2. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Statistics, in the modern sense of the word, began evolving in the 18th century in response to the novel needs of industrializing sovereign states. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states, particularly demographics such as population. This was later extended to include all collections of information of all types ...

  3. Timeline of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    1835 – Adolphe Quetelet 's Treatise on Man introduces social science statistics and the concept of the "average man", 1866 – John Venn 's Logic of Chance defends the frequency interpretation of probability. 1877–1883 – Charles Sanders Peirce outlines frequentist statistics, emphasizing the use of objective randomization in experiments ...

  4. Autoregressive model - Wikipedia

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    Autoregressive model. In statistics, econometrics, and signal processing, an autoregressive (AR) model is a representation of a type of random process; as such, it can be used to describe certain time-varying processes in nature, economics, behavior, etc. The autoregressive model specifies that the output variable depends linearly on its own ...

  5. Historical present - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In linguistics and rhetoric, the historical present or historic present, also called dramatic present or narrative present, is the employment of the present tense instead of past tenses when narrating past events. It is typically thought to heighten the dramatic force of the narrative by describing events as if they were still unfolding ...

  6. Wikipedia talk:Timeline standards - Wikipedia

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    I believe that for timeline articles, bullet entries should be in the present tense, and that seems to have been the original standard. —Anomalocaris 09:13, 25 November 2022 (UTC) Historical present tense is the standard, even if it's not codified anywhere. I'm happy with this standard and don't see any need to change it.

  7. Founders of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Founders of statistics. 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.

  8. Present perfect - Wikipedia

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    The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences. [1] The term is used particularly in the context of English grammar to refer to forms like "I have finished". The forms are present because they use the present tense of the auxiliary verb ...

  9. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    Details of the history of these verbs can be found under Germanic weak verb; those with -gh-in the spelling were also affected by the Germanic spirant law. A few weak verbs have undergone additional contractions or vowel shortenings in their past or present tense forms. A few verbs are regular in their spoken forms, but have irregular spelling.