Five Turning Points in the Historical Progress of Statistics - My Personal Vision

von Collani, Elart. "Five Turning Points in the Historical Progress of Statistics - My Personal Vision." Serdica Journal of Computing 8.3 (2014): 199-226. <http://eudml.org/doc/270081>.

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abstract = {Statistics has penetrated almost all branches of science and all areas of human endeavor. At the same time, statistics is not only misunderstood, misused and abused to a frightening extent, but it is also often much disliked by students in colleges and universities. This lecture discusses/covers/addresses the historical development of statistics, aiming at identifying the most important turning points that led to the present state of statistics and at answering the questions “What went wrong with statistics?” and “What to do next?”. ACM Computing Classification System (1998): A.0, A.m, G.3, K.3.2.},
author = {von Collani, Elart},
journal = {Serdica Journal of Computing},
keywords = {Jakob Bernoulli; Abraham de Moivre; John Sinclair; Adolphe Quetelet; Andrej Kolmogorov; ASA; Uncertainty; Randomness; Probability},
language = {eng},
number = {3},
pages = {199-226},
publisher = {Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences},
title = {Five Turning Points in the Historical Progress of Statistics - My Personal Vision},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/270081},
volume = {8},
year = {2014},
}

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