History of Statistics

Question 1

Philosophers

Answer 1

Ideas - no quantitative analyses

Question 2

Graunt, Petty

Answer 2

studied affairs of state, vital statistics of populations

Question 3

Pascal, Bernoulli

Answer 3

studied probability through games of chance, gambling

Question 4

Laplace, Gauss

Answer 4

normal curve, regression through study of astronomy

Question 5

Quetelet

Answer 5

astronomer who first applied statistical analyses to human biology

Question 6

Galton

Answer 6

studied genetic variation in humans(used regression and correlation)

Question 7

Pearson

Answer 7

studied natural selection using correlation, formed first academic department of statistics, Biometrika journal, helped develop the Chi Square analysis

Question 8

Gossett (Student)

Answer 8

studied process of brewing, alerted the statistics community about problems with small sample sizes, developed Student’s test

Question 9

Fisher

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evolutionary biologists - developed ANOVA, stressed the importance of experimental design

Question 10

Wilcoxon

Answer 10

biochemist studied pesticides, non-parametric equivalent of two-samples test

Question 11

Kruskal, Wallis

Answer 11

economists who developed the non-parametric equivalent of the ANOVA

Question 12

Spearman

Answer 12

psychologist who developed a non-parametric equivalent of the correlation coefficient

Question 13

Kendall

Answer 13

statistician who developed another non-parametric equivalent the correlation coefficient

Question 14

Tukey

Answer 14

statistician who developed multiple comparisons procedure

Question 15

Dunnett

Answer 15

biochemist who studied pesticides, developed multiple comparisons procedure for control groups

Question 16

Keuls

Answer 16

agronomist who developed multiple comparisons procedure

Question 17

Computer Technology

Answer 17

provided many advantages over calculations by hand or by calculator, stimulated the growth of investigation into new techniques