Statistics

Statistics is a type of data analysis which practice includes the planning, summarizing, and interpreting of observations of a system possibly followed by predicting or forecasting of future events based on a mathematical model of the system being observed. Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics specifically in the area of statistical theory which uses probability theory in the mathematical models.

Important contributors to statistics

• Carl Gauss
• Blaise Pascal
• Sir Francis Galton
• William Sealey Gosset (known as "Student")
• Karl Pearson
• Sir Ronald Fisher
• Gertrude Cox
• Charles Spearman
• Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Aleksandr Lyapunov

See also list of statisticians.

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