Prob stat

Probability & Statistics

By meganlucas
  • 3500 BCE

    Egypt

    Hounds & Jacks
  • 3050 BCE

    Wealth & Population in Egypt

  • 1500 BCE

    Famine

    Used dice to play games as a distraction
  • 1400 BCE

    Combinations of 7

  • 1200 BCE

    Dice

  • 40

    How to Win at Dice

  • 1500

    Summa de Arithmetica

    Luca Pacioli
  • 1539

    Father of Probability Theory

    Girolamo Cardano

  • Father of Statistics

    John Graunt

  • Late 1600s

    Edmund Halley - annuities
    Abraham Demoivre - Doctrine of Chances

  • Political Arithmetic

    William Petty

  • Problem of Points

    Blaise Pascal & Pierre de Fermet

  • De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae

    "On Reasoning in Games of Chance" by Huygens

  • Game of Chance

    Daniel Bernoulli

  • Law of Large Numbers

    Jakob Bernoulli

  • Father of Modern Probability Theory

    Pierre Simon de LaPlace & Theory of Continuous Probability

  • Census Data

  • Statistical Analysis of Census Data

    Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet

  • Probability & Genetics

    Gregor Mendel

  • Law of Regression & Correlation Coeffecient

    Francis Galton

  • Biometrics

    Karl Pearson

  • Chain Theory of Probability

    Andrey Markov

  • Cybernetics

    Norbert Wiener