Ancient Times ( 3000 BC – 27 BC ) * Pictorial representation and other symbols were used for Statistics back in the yearss. ( To enter Numberss of people. animate beings. etc. ) * In Babylonia and China. population is already recorded. * Sumerians. record population for revenue enhancement intents.

* Egyptians. analyse population and material wealth of the state before constructing pyramids. * Papyrus – where early Bibles of Statistics were written. * In Biblical times. nose counts were done by Moses ( 1491 BC ) followed by David ( 1017 BC ) * In China. during the Zhou Dynasty. nose counts were done to measure the available people for the ground forces and revenue enhancement ( 1027 to 256 BC ) * Ancient Greeks ( 594 BC ) already did nose counts

* Roman Empire – foremost one to make expensive informations aggregation. * Servius Tullius. the 6th King of Rome. was given recognition for establishing the assemblage of population informations. who initiated the first nose count. * King William I. King of England. required the digest of informations completed in 1086 called “The Domes Day Book” or “The Book of Winchester” – first book of British statistics

eighteenth Century * Achenwall is the adult male noted to be the first to present the word “statistics” ( 1719-1772 ) * Zimmerman and Sinclair introduced and popularized the name “statistics” in their books * The method of least squares was foremost described by Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1794

nineteenth Century * Laplace’s “Theories Analytique des Probabilities” of 1812 farther supported and stabilized the said theory. * The significance of “statistics” broadened. so including the subject concerned with the aggregation. drumhead. and analysis of informations. * Social scientists used statistical logical thinking and chance theoretical accounts to progress the new scientific disciplines. * Lambert Adolfe Quetelet applied the theory of chance to anthropological measurings and expanded the same rule to different Fieldss of scientific discipline. Because of his continued accent on the importance of utilizing statistical methods. he is referred to as the “Father of Modern Statistics” .

* Besides. he established the Central Commission for Statistics. * Francis Galton ( 1822-1911 ) developed the usage of percentiles and the correlativity method. * Karl Pearson ( 1857-1936 ) originated the basic statistical constructs and processs as standard divergence. the random walk and the chi-squares. * Ronald Aylmer Fisher ( 1890-1962 ) contributed in the field of statistics the usage of Fisher Test ( F-Test ) . analysis of discrepancy ( ANOVA ) and covariance in illative statistics.

twentieth century * At present. statistics is a dependable agencies of depicting accurately the values of economic. political. societal. biological and physical informations and serves as tool to analyse such informations. Much informations can be approximated accurately by certain distributions and the consequences of chance distributions can be used in analysing statistical informations. Statistics is widely employed in authorities. concern. and the natural and societal scientific disciplines. Electronic computing machines have expedited statistical calculation. and have allowed statisticians to develop “computer-intensive” methods.