Outline of Statistics - History of Statistics

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or statistics:

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)