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Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the population from which the experimental sample was drawn. Statisticians are skilled people who thus apply statistical methods. Hundreds of statisticians are notable. This article lists statisticians who have been especially instrumental in the development of theoretical and applied statistics.
== Founders of departments of statistics == The role of a department of statistics is discussed in a 1949 article by Harold Hotelling, which helped to spur the creation of many departments of statistics.
== See also ==
List of statisticians History of statistics Timeline of probability and statistics List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field
== References ==
== External links == "Statisticians in History". American Statistical Association. 30 November 2016. "Life and Work of Statisticians". Department of Mathematics, University of York. "Portraits of Statisticians". Department of Mathematics, University of York. John Aldrich. "Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics". University of Southampton. Lawrence H. Riddle. "Biographies of Women Mathematicians". Agnes Scott College. StatProb – peer-reviewed encyclopedia sponsored by statistics and probability societies