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1600

  • 1623-1662 Pascal
  • 1620-1674 Graunt
  • 1629-1695 Huygens
  • 1657 Huygens's De radiociniis in ludo aleae
  • 1663 Graunt's Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality
  • 1671 De Witt's 1st (unimplemented) mathematical annuity scheme, following Huygens
  • 1687 Newton's Principia
  • 1693 Edmund Halley's mortality table
  • TK: Jakob Bernoulli, Nicholas Bernoulli, De Moivre, Fermat

1700

  • 1710 Arbuthnot's An Argument for Divine Providence Taken from the Constant Regularity Observed in the Birth of Both Sexes
  • 1718 De Moivre's Doctrine of Chances
  • 1725 De Moivre's Treatise of Annuities
  • 1749–1827 Laplace
  • 1766-1834 Malthus
  • 1770 first usage of "statistics...the political arrangement of all the modern states of the known world."
  • 1777-1855 Gauss
  • 1792-1793 Condorcet
  • 1796-1874 Quetelet

1800

  • 1822-1911 Galton
  • 1824-1880 Broca
  • 1835 Quetelet's Treatise on Man, book: "Essay on Social Physics: Man and the Development of his Faculties,"
  • 1837 Transactions of the Statistical Society of London
  • 1837 Poisson coins the phrase "la loi des grands nombres" ("The law of large numbers")
  • 1842 British government abandons Babbage's Difference Engine
  • 1845 Quetelet's "Theory of Probabilities as applied to the Moral and Political Sciences"
  • 1857-1936 Karl Pearson
  • 1858-1917 Durkheim
  • 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species
  • 1863-1945 Charles Spearman (Rank correlation: 1904)
  • 1871-1951 Udny Yule, Scottish statistician (multivariate regression: 1985)
  • 1877 Galton's On typical laws of heredity
  • 1885 Galton's Regression towards Mediocrity in Hereditary Science presented, September 10
  • 1890-1962 R A Fisher
  • 1894-1981 Jerzy Neyman
  • 1895-1980 Egon Pearson
  • 1895 Yule's "On the Correlation of Total Pauperism with Proportion of Out-relief"

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