Statistics index
Alphabetical list of History Topics History Topics Index
Although at present this archive does not contain any specially written article on Statistics, nevertheless there is a wealth of information on the history of Statistics. We list below the main places where this information is to be found.


Statisticians
Anderson
Bortkiewicz
Cochran
George Dantzig
David
Edgeworth
Feller
Fisher
Galton
Gnedenko
Gosset
Hollerith
Jevons
David Kendall


Maurice Kendall
Kolmogorov
Paul Lévy
Lexis
Linnik
Lukacs
Neyman
Nightingale
Pearson
Egon Pearson
Pillai
Quetelet
Scheffe
Shewhart
Slutsky
Tinbergen
Tukey
Wald
Weldon
Wilks
Winkler
Wishart
Wolfowitz
Yates
Youden
Yule


Statistical Societies

American Statistical Association
Australian Statistical Society
Bulgarian Statistical Society
Canadian Statistical Society
Estonian Statistical Society
Finnish Statistical Society
German Statistical Society
Korean Statistical Society
Royal Statistical Society
Swiss Statistical Society

Additional Material

Bertrand Introduction to Bertrand's work on probability
Fisher Preface to R A Fisher: the life of a scientist
Fisher R A Fisher's Introduction to Statistical Methods
Fisher R A Fisher's History of Statistics
Kendall Hiawatha Designs an Experiment
Quetelet Adolphe Quetelet on crime
Savage Leonard J Savage's Foundations of Statistics
Venice and statistics
Journal of the Statistical Society of London

Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson

History Topics Index
Alphabetical list of History Topics
Main index Biographies Index
JOC/EFR February 2007

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