Major events
- Ancient Greece - ideas but nothing else
- 17th Century - affairs of state (statistics gets its name)
- 18th and 19th Century -development of normal curve and distribution
- Early 20th Century - Pearson (father of modern statistics), Gossett and Fisher
- Later 20th Century - most of the modern tests are developed by biologists, psychologists and economists
- Invention of the computer provides computational power and further development of new techniques
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