The Department of Statistics at LSE has a distinguished history. Its roots can be traced back to the appointment of Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, an alumnus of the University of Cambridge, at LSE in 1895.

A year after UC Davis professors Alan Olmstead and Scott Gartner published a book on the history of America through statistics, the laurels are flowing in. Newsweek's economics columnist, Robert ...

In The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, published in March by the Harvard University Press, Stephen Stigler identifies seven fundamental principles of statistics, a largely interdisciplinary field ...

The story of how data scientists became sexy is mostly the story of the coupling of the mature discipline of statistics with a very young one--computer science. The term “Data Science” has emerged ...

Dans quelle mesure l'histoire des statistiques appartient au genre littéraire des « constructions sociales »? Est-ce que ce genre comprend l'élaboration de statistiques nationales? Ce bref rappel ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we present a view of the evolution of statistical thinking through eras we designate as Pre-modern, Classical, Recent Past, and ...

National Statistics Day 2021: The day makes people understand how Statistics help in shaping and framing the policies. Due to COVID-19 pandemic this year also the main event of the Day is being ...

World Statistics Day 2022 theme: World Statistics Day is being observed on October 20 to highlight the significance of data and statistics in the day-to-day development of society. World Statistics ...