II. Decide if the given statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the text

1. At first the term was used in English by Sir John Sinclair who published ‘Statistical Account of Scotland’.

2. Originally the term was used to designate the systematic collection of demographic and economic data.

3. Being extended by Laplace statistics is known to stop its development for some period of time.

4. New sciences were developed on the basis of statistical reasoning and probability only by physical scientists in the 19^th century.

5. The development of statistical reasoning didn’t happen to be closely connected with the development of inductive logic and the scientific method.

III. Search information and then give presentation about one of the scientists below

Important contributors to statistics

· Thomas Bayes

· George E. P. Box

· Pafnuty Chebyshev

· David R. Cox

· Gertrude Cox

· Harald Cramér

· Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

· Bradley Efron

· Bruno de Finetti

· Ronald A. Fisher

· Francis Galton

· Carl Friedrich Gauss

· William Sealey Gosset (“Student”)

· Andrey Kolmogorov

· Pierre-Simon Laplace

· Erich L. Lehmann

· Aleksandr Lyapunov

· Abraham De Moivre

· Jerzy Neyman

· Florence Nightingale

· Blaise Pascal

· Karl Pearson

· Charles S. Peirce

· Adolphe Quetelet

· C. R. Rao

· Walter A. Shewhart

· Charles Spearman

· Thorvald N. Thiele

· John Tukey

· Abraham Wald

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