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3050 BCE
3050 a.c.
the Egyptians already analyzed population data. They kept population movement accounts -
3000 BCE
3000 a.c
The Babylonians used small clay tablets to collect data on agricultural production and trade. -
500 BCE
500 a.c
censuses in rome to know the existing population. its mission was to control the number of inhabitants and their distribution throughout the territories. -
1662
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. -
1774
Pierre-Simon Laplace contributed to the application of statistics and to many statistical topics, including "the error curve". -
siglo XIX
generalizes the method of studying phenomena of natural and social sciences. Galton and Pearson are credited with moving from dedictive to inductive statistics. -
1805
Adrien Marie Legendre discovered the method of least squares, so widely used in statistics today. -
1822
Francis Galton investigates heritability using inverse normal curves that he called ogives, a pioneer in simple linear regression. -
1835
adolphe quetelet "father of modern statistics" observed the regularity with which certain social phenomena were reproduced. -
1980
wilhelm lexis starts an important topic, that of time series, jhon arbuthnot study on sex ratios in births -
2000
statistics has become an effective method for accurately describing and relating many data.