What is the history and orgin of statistics?

ALexis: What is the history and orgin of statistics?
Im doing a research paper and project about statistics, as in math. So please if yu can help, i need the history and origin of statistics.

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Answer by way2hot2becool
Many fields of statistics can trace their origin to the Normal curve, which was mainly seen through observation. For example, randomly taking people on the street and measuring their heights would give a distribution that was roughly Normal- this was true for many other characteristics of humans, natural phenomenon, and others. It was originally called the “Empirical Rule”, but in 1733, Abraham De Moivre published a formal mathematical paper on the “Normal curve”, which set down the convention of the 68-95-99.7 rule.

Statistics was not a true field of study until about a century ago. During that time, William S. Gosset came up with a new model, called a t-distribution, to aid him in quality control at a brewery. He published his work under a pseudonym, Student, which became one of the first breakthroughs in Statistics, giving statisticians the ability to accurately predict phenomenon for much smaller sample sizes.

Much of modern statistics is done through the field of observational studies and experiments, along with a branch of mathematicians devoted to finding new mathematical techniques to describe aspects of the random world.

If you are writing a paper on statistics, I would begin by talking about ancient uses of statistics. Then go into De Moivre’s paper and Student’s t-test, and finish with something about statistics in the modern day. I never wrote the best papers, but that’s how I’d go about doing it. Good luck!