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GROUP 1
GROUP MATES
AL KINDI
AL-KINDI- IS KNOW TO BE
THE PHILOSOPHER OF
ARAB .HE WAS BORN ( 801873)WAS A MUSLIM ARAB
AND A POLYMATH
MATHEMATICIAN PHYSICIAN
AND A MUSICIAN. HE IS ONE
OF THE VERY FIRST
FOUNDERS OF STATISTICS
English 1702
Playfair, William
Scottish 1759
Quetelet, Adolphe
1874 Pioneered the use of probability and statistics in the social sciences
Belgian 1796
[3]
FATHER OF STATITICS
SIR RONALD AYLMER FISHER (17
FEBRUARY 1890 29 JULY 1962), WHO
PUBLISHED AS R. A. FISHER, WAS AN
ENGLISH STATISTICIAN, AND BIOLOGIST, WHO
USED MATHEMATICS TO COMBINE
MENDELIAN GENETICS AND
NATURAL SELECTION, HELPING TO CREATE A
NEW DARWINIST SYNTHESIS OF EVOLUTION
KNOWN AS
MODERN EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS, AS
WELL AS A PROMINENT EUGENICIST IN THE
EARLY PART OF HIS LIFE.
Irish-American
1892
1965
Neyman, Jerzy
Polish-American
1894
1981
[15]
Deming, W. Edwards
American
1900
1993
[16]
Pearson, Egon
English
1895
1980
Finetti, Bruno de
Italian
1906
1985
Kendall, Maurice
English
1907
1983
Pioneer of the
"operational
subjective"
conception of
probability. Used this
as the basis for
exposition of the
Bayesian method of
statistical analysis.
Developed the
representation
theorem for
exchangeable random
variables
showing that they are
the basis of the IID
model in statistics.
Co-developed methods
for assessing
statistical randomness;
invented
Kendall tau rank correlati
on coefficient
Tukey, John
American
1915
2000
Blackwell, David
American
1919
2010
Indian
1920
Cox, David
English
1924
Developed the
proportional hazards model for the
analysis of survival data
Efron, Bradley
American
1938
Invented the
bootstrap resampling technique for
deriving an empirical distribution of
an estimate of a model parameter