Important Contributors To Statistics
See also: List of statisticians and Founders of statistics- Thomas Bayes
- George E. P. Box
- Pafnuty Chebyshev
- David R. Cox
- Gertrude Cox
- Harald Cramér
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
- Bradley Efron
- Bruno de Finetti
- Ronald A. Fisher
- Francis Galton
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- William Sealey Gosset (“Student”)
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Erich L. Lehmann
- Aleksandr Lyapunov
- Abraham De Moivre
- Jerzy Neyman
- Florence Nightingale
- Blaise Pascal
- Karl Pearson
- Charles S. Peirce
- Adolphe Quetelet
- C. R. Rao
- Walter A. Shewhart
- Charles Spearman
- Thorvald N. Thiele
- John Tukey
- Abraham Wald
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