Events Tagged: "statistics"

31 events with tag "statistics"

1714 ID: 460
John Arbuthnot applies probability theory to birth rate statistics, arguing for divine design in equal male/female births
ID: 460
1733 ID: 498
De Moivre discovers normal distribution approximation to binomial distribution (early central limit theorem)
ID: 498
1763 ID: 567
Thomas Bayes' work published posthumously - Bayes' theorem for updating probability with evidence
ID: 567
1801 ID: 678
London population 800,000; estimated 100,000 people vaccinated by this year
ID: 678
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1805 ID: 685
Legendre introduces method of least squares for data analysis and curve fitting
ID: 685
1809 ID: 695
Gauss publishes theory of planetary motion with mathematical justification for least squares
ID: 695
1835 ID: 804
Adolphe Quetelet applies mathematical statistics to social phenomena - creates 'average man' concept
ID: 804
1859 ID: 919
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species with mathematical arguments and statistical analysis
ID: 919
1873 ID: 992
Charles Hermite develops systematic theory of quadratic forms for statistical analysis
ID: 992
1886 ID: 4217
Hollerith receives his first patent (U.S. Patent 395,782) for 'Art of Compiling Statistics' - foundation of punch card data processing
ID: 4217
1889 ID: 4218
Hollerith's tabulating system successfully tested by Baltimore Department of Health for vital statistics
ID: 4218
1910 ID: 4284
U.S. Census reports 100,000 stenographers and typists employed - 80% are women, transforming office workforce
ID: 4284
1911 ID: 1205
Dr. W.C. Rucker documents whooping cough killing 10,000+ American children annually
ID: 1205
1920 ID: 1295
250,000 US children die annually from poverty
ID: 1295
1925 ID: 1337
Stockholm infant mortality declines to 50 per 1,000
ID: 1337
1928 ID: 1354
British Medical Journal: 'The fatality rate among vaccinated cases was just five times as great as among unvaccinated cases'
ID: 1354
1936 ID: 1446
30,250 Catholic priests in United States (20,836 diocesan, 9,414 religious orders)
ID: 1446
1936 ID: 1447
23,579 students in Catholic seminaries
ID: 1447
1943 ID: 1536
Typhoid fever deaths: 0.5 per 100,000 (98% decline from 1900)
ID: 1536
1948 ID: 1613
Contrast: 200-300 vaccination deaths vs. only 1 smallpox death this year
ID: 1613
1952 ID: 1666
By 1952: 60% of West German Foreign Ministry employees are former Nazi party members
ID: 1666
1960 ID: 1765
England/Wales: Measles notification only 2.4%, mortality 0.030%
ID: 1765
1965 ID: 1815
US chemical abortions begin (estimated 756 million by 2019)
ID: 1815
1967 ID: 1840
Peak 1967: 59,892 Catholic priests total in United States
ID: 1840
1973 ID: 1920
Final Phoenix Statistics (1968-1972): 81,740 'neutralized', 26,369 killed officially
ID: 1920
1999 ID: 3037
75.5 million Americans (29% of population) directly involved in education system
ID: 3037
2000 ID: 3044
40% of blacks, 17% of whites functionally illiterate; 500 per 100,000 Americans incarcerated (up from 50 per 100,000 for 140 years until 1930)
ID: 3044
2000 ID: 3051
Institute of Medicine: Hospitals are 3rd leading cause of death
ID: 3051
2010 ID: 3176
Prescription rates climb to over 35 million (from 5 million in 1991)
ID: 3176
2013 ID: 3239
Global abortion statistics: 1.7 billion surgical and chemical abortions (1973-2013)
ID: 3239
2014 ID: 4531
Stan's NUTS (No-U-Turn Sampler) - automatically tunes Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for 1000x faster convergence
ID: 4531