History of Statistics

Ancient Greek: The Philosophers- they came up with ideas but had no quantitative analyses.
17th Century: Graunt- studied affairs of the state and began the stepping stones for statistics. Petty- Economist who studied probability and created the census technique. Pascal- Studied probability through gambling.
17th-18th Century: Bernoulli-studied probability and risk.
18th Century: Laplace- created the normal curve and studied regression. Gauss- created the bell-shaped curve.
19th Century: Quetelet- applied statistics to human behavior (criminals) in order to predict criminal behavior through physical properties. Galton- (Darwin's Cousin) looked at relationships of parents and their offspring. Applied genetic base for size (height).
Early 20th Century: Pearson- Father of Statistics. Created first statistic journal Biometrika. Formed the first academic department for statistics. Gossett (Student)- student of Pearson's. Studied brewing and created the first student-t test to compare means. Fisher- developed ANOVA to compare 3 or more means.
Later 20th Century: Wilcoxon-biochemist who developed the wilcoxon test. Kruskal, Wallis- economist who developed the non-paramedic equivalent of the ANOVA. Spearman- a psychologist who developed a non-parametric equivalent of the correlation coefficient. Kendall- the first real statistician, developed another non-parametric equivalent. Tukey- Statistician, developed multiple comparisons procedure. Dunnett- biochemist, developed multiple comparisons procedure to compare the control groups. Keuls- agronomist who developed multiple comparisons procedure.
Computer Technology: ENIAC- used during WWII to position guns. Easier to use than calculating by hand.