Questions about the history of statistics.
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Timeline of machine learning and data mining breakthroughs
Is there any timeline or historical overview of the most important breakthroughs in machine learning and data mining?
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What are some good resources for the history of time series analysis?
I have checked out the answer to this question on stats.stackexchange: What are good resources providing a history of statistics? Indeed, the Stigler book "Statistics on the Table" looks excellent ...
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What statistical methods are archaic and should be omitted from textbooks? [closed]
In answering a question about a confidence interval for a binomial proportion I pointed out the fact that the normal approximation is an unreliable method that is archaic. It should not be taught as a ...
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What was Student's (Gosset's) contribution in formulating the t-test?
A recent question, related question, and cited source, recently made me aware that the $N-1$ correction for sample estimates of population variance is referred to as Bessel's correction. Bessel was ...
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What principled arguments are made with data?
Consider the frequentist argument: "I will believe A since not-A makes the data improbable".
Consider the Bayesian argument: "I will believe A since given my beliefs on A and the data generating ...
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Who are some famous USSR/Russian Statistics/probability academic researchers? [closed]
Who are some famous USSR/Russian Statistics/probability academic researchers? Are russian (current Russia and former USSR) strong in this field academically?
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Data analysis on multiuser environment
I have following environment that I'd like to analyze.
My company is divided in two teams:
Insert Team (composed by 150 persons)
Quality Check Team (composed by 10 persons)
Suppose that all ...
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Who invented profile maximum likelihood estimation?
Could anyone give me some information on who invented profile maximum likelihood estimation or who first use profile maximum likelihood estimation and the short history of profile maximum likelihood ...
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Periods in history of statistics
The history of many fields of science can be divided into a small number of time intervals that often begin with some important discovery.
But I have never seen something similar in timeline of ...
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t-test and t-distribution etymology
Okay, I'm aware of the fact that Gosset came up with t distribution, but what is the etymology of "t". How did "t" end up in t-test and t distribution?
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Where did the frequentist-Bayesian debate go?
The world of statistics was divided between frequentists and Bayesians. These days it seems everyone does a bit of both. How can this be? If the different approaches are suitable for different ...
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Origin of the Naïve Bayes classifier?
I've looking around Google Scholar for the earliest mention of this particular classifier and have not had much luck finding a definitive source. I've seen some sources cite as late as the 1980s and ...
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What are good resources providing a history of statistics?
What are good online or offline resources that give an overview of the history of statistics and the main breakthrough in statistics until now?
I have read the page on History of Statistics on ...
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When was the cross-correlation function invented? And what was the motivation behind it?
In a previous question I asked about the history of auto-correlation
In this question I'm interested in the discovery process behind cross-correlation.
When was it invented?
Was it independently ...
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When was the autocorrelation function invented? And what was the motivation for it?
I'm just very curious about the discovery process behind the autocorrelation function.
When was it invented?
Was it independently invented multiple times, for example?
What was the motivation for ...
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Who first developed the idea of “sampling distributions”?
Who created sampling distributions? I have looked everywhere and I'm writing a paper, but, so far, all I've been able to come up with is the theory and the definition. Please help me find the who, ...
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Statistics, war stories, data intuition
I think it is fair to say statistics is an applied science so when averages and standard deviations are calculated it is because someone is looking to make some decisions based on those numbers. Part ...
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Famous statistician quotes
What is your favorite statistician quote?
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