History of Statistics
BICOL STATE COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
NAGA CITY
HISTORY OF
STATISTICS
Group 3 Members:
Tricia Mae Berja
Michelle Lee
Desiree Basmayor
Mica Rubio
Gian Perucho
Ivan Ricafort Ms. Donnalyn Matamorosa
Dominic Bobis Teacher
Alex Obligado
Ancient Times (3000 BC – 27 BC) * Pictorial representation and other symbols were used for Statistics back in the days. (To record numbers of people, animals, etc.) * In Babylonia and China, population is already recorded. * Sumerians, record population for taxation purposes. * Egyptians, analyze population and material wealth of the country before building pyramids. * Papyrus – where early scriptures of Statistics were written. * In Biblical times, censuses were done by Moses (1491 BC) followed by David (1017 BC) * In China, during the Zhou Dynasty, censuses were done to evaluate the available people for the army and taxation (1027 to 256 BC) * Ancient Greeks (594 BC) already did censuses * ROMAN EMPIRE – first one to do expensive data collection. * SERVIUS TULLIUS, the 6th King of Rome, was given credit for instituting the gathering of population data, who initiated the first census. * King William I, King of England, required the compilation of data completed in 1086 called “The Domes Day Book” or “The Book of Winchester” – first book of British statistics
18th Century * Achenwall is the man noted to be the first to introduce the word “statistics” (1719-1772) * Zimmerman and Sinclair introduced and popularized the name “statistics” in their books * The method of least squares was first described by Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1794
19th Century * Laplace’s “Theories Analytique des Probabilities” of 1812 further supported and stabilized the said theory. * The meaning of “statistics” broadened, then including the discipline concerned with the collection, summary, and analysis of data. * Social scientists
NAGA CITY
HISTORY OF
STATISTICS
Group 3 Members:
Tricia Mae Berja
Michelle Lee
Desiree Basmayor
Mica Rubio
Gian Perucho
Ivan Ricafort Ms. Donnalyn Matamorosa
Dominic Bobis Teacher
Alex Obligado
Ancient Times (3000 BC – 27 BC) * Pictorial representation and other symbols were used for Statistics back in the days. (To record numbers of people, animals, etc.) * In Babylonia and China, population is already recorded. * Sumerians, record population for taxation purposes. * Egyptians, analyze population and material wealth of the country before building pyramids. * Papyrus – where early scriptures of Statistics were written. * In Biblical times, censuses were done by Moses (1491 BC) followed by David (1017 BC) * In China, during the Zhou Dynasty, censuses were done to evaluate the available people for the army and taxation (1027 to 256 BC) * Ancient Greeks (594 BC) already did censuses * ROMAN EMPIRE – first one to do expensive data collection. * SERVIUS TULLIUS, the 6th King of Rome, was given credit for instituting the gathering of population data, who initiated the first census. * King William I, King of England, required the compilation of data completed in 1086 called “The Domes Day Book” or “The Book of Winchester” – first book of British statistics
18th Century * Achenwall is the man noted to be the first to introduce the word “statistics” (1719-1772) * Zimmerman and Sinclair introduced and popularized the name “statistics” in their books * The method of least squares was first described by Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1794
19th Century * Laplace’s “Theories Analytique des Probabilities” of 1812 further supported and stabilized the said theory. * The meaning of “statistics” broadened, then including the discipline concerned with the collection, summary, and analysis of data. * Social scientists