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the Egyptians already analyzed population data. They kept population movement accounts
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The Babylonians used small clay tablets to collect data on agricultural production and trade.
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censuses in rome to know the existing population. its mission was to control the number of inhabitants and their distribution throughout the territories.
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John Graunt published a manifesto with gross figures of births and deaths in London, as well as natural, social and political causes of these events, he is considered the initiator of statistics.
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Pierre-Simon Laplace contributed to the application of statistics and to many statistical topics, including "the error curve".
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generalizes the method of studying phenomena of natural and social sciences. Galton and Pearson are credited with moving from dedictive to inductive statistics.
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Adrien Marie Legendre discovered the method of least squares, so widely used in statistics today.
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Francis Galton investigates heritability using inverse normal curves that he called ogives, a pioneer in simple linear regression.
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adolphe quetelet "father of modern statistics" observed the regularity with which certain social phenomena were reproduced.
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wilhelm lexis starts an important topic, that of time series, jhon arbuthnot study on sex ratios in births
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statistics has become an effective method for accurately describing and relating many data.