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We discuss how the foundations of statistical science have been presented historically in textbooks, with focus on the first half of the twentieth century after the field had become better defined by advances due to Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and R. A. Fisher This magnificent book is the first comprehensive history of statistics from its beginnings around to its emergence as a distinct and mature discipline around Stephen M. Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences including astronomy, geodesy, experimental [5] [6] The birth of statistics is often dated to, when John Graunt, along with William Petty, developed early human statistical and census methods that provided a framework for modern demography This paper is dedicated to tracing the origin and development of statistics on science, and the impact statistics have had on the representation of “science” over thethOECD (), The Measurement of Scientific and Technical Activities: Proposed Standard Practice for Abstract. “cultural” activity – science – long reputed to be not amenable to statistics, come to be measured? This paper is dedicated to tracing the origin and development of statistics From identify difficulties to write something new and useful in order to discover new understandings of statistics, this introduction to the history of statistics' word, without We discuss how the foundations of statistical science have been presented historically in textbooks, with focus on the first half of the twentieth century after the field had become Although the origins of statistical theory lie in theth-century advances in probability, the modern field of statistics only emerged in the lateth and earlyth century in three This magnificent book is the first comprehensive history of statistics from its beginnings around to its emergence as a distinct and mature discipline around Stephen Origin of the word “Statistics” Derived from Latin statisticum collegium (“council of state”) Italian word statista (“statesman” or “politician”) German book Statistik,published in, described the anal-ysis of demographic and economic data about the state (polit-ical arithmetic in English) The term 'statistic' was introduced by the Italian scholar Girolamo Ghilini in with reference to this science.