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German university,
1749
Political science
of different
countries
Early examples of
Statistical
inference
5th Century B.C.
Athenians estimated the height of ladders by
having multiple soldiers count the bricks, then
multiplying the most frequent count by the
height of a brick.
801-873 A.D.
Al-Kindi wrote “Manuscript on Deciphering
Cryptographic Messages” which showed how to
use frequency analysis to decipher encrypted
messages.
1662
John Graunt
estimated the
population of
London as 384 000
using records.
Modern Statistics
Late 19th and Early 10th Century; 3 stages: