a. Fisher | 1. First Stated the Central Limit Theorem |
b. Cotes | 2. Tried to find the "ideal man" that
nature was trying to produce |
c. Tukey | 3. Was the first demographer to use statistics. |
d. de Moivre | 4. Coined the term "exploratory data
analysis." |
e. Pascal | 5. Father of modern statistics. |
f. Gauss | 6. First described the least squares method.
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g. Graunt | 7. First studied the theory of errors
applied to astronomy. |
h. Galton | 8. First applied the theory of
probability to gambling. |
i. Quetelet | 9. Introduced the concept of correlation.
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