Contribution to Statistics

Time Contributor Contribution

Ancient Philosophers Ideas - no quantitative analyses

Greece

17th Graunt, Petty studied affairs of state, vital statistics of

Century populations
Pascal, Bernoulli
studied probability through games of chance,
gambling

18th Laplace, Gauss normal curve, regression through study of

Century astronomy

19th Quetelet astronomer who first applied statistical analyses

Century to human biology
Galton
studied genetic variation in humans(used
regression and correlation)

20th Pearson studied natural selection using correlation,

Century formed first academic department of statistics,
(early) Gosset (Student) Biometrika journal, helped develop the Chi
Square analysis
Fisher
studied process of brewing, alerted the statistics
community about problems with small sample
sizes, developed Student's test

evolutionary biologists - developed ANOVA,

stressed the importance of experimental design
20th Wilcoxon biochemist studied pesticides, non-parametric
Century equivalent of two-samples test
(later) Kruskal, Wallis
economists who developed the non-parametric
Spearman equivalent of the ANOVA

Kendall psychologist who developed a non-parametric

equivalent of the correlation coefficient
Tukey
statistician who developed another non-
parametric equivalent the correlation coefficient
Dunnett
statistician who developed multiple comparisons
Keuls procedure

Computer biochemist who studied pesticides, developed

Technology multiple comparisons procedure for control
groups

agronomist who developed multiple comparisons

procedure

provided many advantages over calculations by

hand or by calculator, stimulated the growth of
investigation into new techniques