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Indian contribution in the field of statistics has been quite significant from the time of Mauryan Empire (321-296 BC). The book ‘ Ain-I-Akbari' written by the Abu Fazal during the time of Mughal Emperor.
Akbar also administrative and revenue services of the Mughal Empire. The German word ‘Statstik’ was first used by the Gottfried Achen Wall in 1749 for the analysis of the data about the statistics. By the 18th century the term statistics was formally introduced in Encyclopedia Britanica in 1797. The initial results on probability theory was found in 17th and 18th century whose two giantts were Laplace (1749-1822) and Gauss (1775-1855). The first statistical body “The royal statistical Society was founded in 1834 in London.
Karl Pearson was the founder of the Mathematical Statistics. The advanced field of statistics was developed in the late 19th early 20th centauries.
Karl Pearson founded the advanced statistical laboratory and in 1911, the world's first University statistics department at University collage, London. In 1910 and 1920 Gosset and Fisher initiated to developed modern statistics science for the data having small samples. Fisher applied statistics to a variety of diversified fields such as genetics, biometry, psychology, education, agriculture, etc. He is well know as father of statistics.
After at last advanced methods of statistics were developed day by day after that.
the definition is given by the Croxton and Cowdon is as under;-
Statistics is the science which deals with the collection, analysis and interpretation of numerical data.
Indian Agriculture Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) is another institute which contributed a lot in the development of statistics in India.
Nowadays statistics is not only useful for quantitative data but also for quantitative data and considered as a independent part of scientific methods. Industrial statistics and a branch of statistics Operation Research (O.R) was used in the military projects during the second world war.
In India O.R came into existence in 1949 with the opening of an O.R unit at the Regional Research Laboratory in Hyderabad.
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