History of Statistics
Description: This quiz will test your knowledge on the history of statistics. | |
Number of Questions: 15 | |
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Who is considered the father of modern statistics?
What is the name of the theorem that states that the sample mean converges to the population mean as the sample size increases?
Who developed the method of least squares?
What is the name of the statistical technique that uses a sample to make inferences about a population?
What is the name of the statistical distribution that describes the probability of observing a certain number of successes in a sequence of independent experiments?
Who developed the theory of probability?
What is the name of the statistical method that uses historical data to predict future events?
Who developed the theory of games?
What is the name of the statistical method that uses a sample to estimate the parameters of a population?
Who developed the theory of information?
What is the name of the statistical method that uses a sample to test a hypothesis about a population?
Who developed the theory of decision making under uncertainty?
What is the name of the statistical method that uses a sample to estimate the relationship between two or more variables?
Who developed the theory of non-parametric statistics?
What is the name of the statistical method that uses a sample to identify groups of similar observations?