History of Statistics - Important Contributors To Statistics

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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