Timeline of probability and statistics
- Timeline of probability and statistics
A timeline of probability and statistics
17th century
* 1654 - Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat create the theory of probability,
* 1693 - Edmund Halley prepares the first mortality tables statistically relating death rate to age,
18th century
* 1724 - Abraham de Moivre studies mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of annuities in "Annuities on Lives",
* 1733 - Abraham de Moivre introduces the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution in probability,
* 1761 - Thomas Bayes proves Bayes' theorem,
19th century
* 1805 - Adrien-Marie Legendre introduces the method of least squares for fitting a curve to a given set of observations,
20th century
* 1933 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov publishes his book "Basic notions of the calculus of probability" ("Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung") which contains an axiomatization of probability based on measure theory,
* 1943 - Kenneth Levenberg proposes a method for nonlinear least squares fitting,
* 1953 - Nicholas Metropolis introduces the idea of thermodynamic simulated annealing algorithms,
* 1962 - Donald Marquardt proposes the Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm,
See also
*Founders of statistics
*List of important publications in statistics
*History of statistics
External links
*citation | year = 2007 | author = Kees Verduin | title = A Short History of Probability and Statistics | url = http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/verduin/stathist/stathist.htm
*citation | year = 2008 | author = John Aldrich | title = Probability and Statistics on the Earliest Uses Pages | url = http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/Probability%20Earliest%20Uses.htm
*cite web | title = Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization: An illustrated chronology of innovations | author = Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis | url = http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/ | year = 2008
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Outline of probability — Probability is the likelihood or chance that something is the case or will happen. Probability theory is used extensively in statistics, mathematics, science and philosophy to draw conclusions about the likelihood of potential events and the… … Wikipedia
Founders of statistics — Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the… … Wikipedia
List of statistics topics — Please add any Wikipedia articles related to statistics that are not already on this list.The Related changes link in the margin of this page (below search) leads to a list of the most recent changes to the articles listed below. To see the most… … Wikipedia
Outline of statistics — The following outline is provided as an overview and guide to the variety of topics included within the subject of statistics: Statistics pertains to the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide… … Wikipedia
Timeline of mathematics — A timeline of pure and applied mathematics history. Contents 1 Before 1000 BC 2 1st millennium BC 3 1st millennium AD 4 1000–1500 … Wikipedia
List of scientific theories and laws — This article is meant for all currently relevant scientific laws and theor(ies/ems). This is not meant for theories which have been undermined, or are considered obsolete.=Science=Astronomy*Big Bang TheoryBiology*Cell TheoryGenetics*Theory of… … Wikipedia
Timeline of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and random processes — A timeline of events related to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and random processes. Ancient times *c. 3000 BC The ancients viewed heat as that related to fire. The ancient Egyptians viewed heat as related to origin mythologies. One… … Wikipedia
Industrial and organizational psychology — Psychology … Wikipedia
Occupational safety and health — is a cross disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goal of all occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe work environment.[1] As a secondary effect … Wikipedia
List of mathematics articles (T) — NOTOC T T duality T group T group (mathematics) T integration T norm T norm fuzzy logics T schema T square (fractal) T symmetry T table T theory T.C. Mits T1 space Table of bases Table of Clebsch Gordan coefficients Table of divisors Table of Lie … Wikipedia
