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Biostatistics: Biology Medical Statistics Environmental Science

This document discusses several branches of statistics including biostatistics, environmental statistics, econometrics, quality control, and demography. It then provides a brief history of the term "statistics", noting that it originated from the Latin word for "state" and was initially used by rulers and governments to gather information about lands, populations, and other aspects of ruling. The document outlines how statistics has developed and changed over time from its initial governmental uses to the modern field that applies statistical analysis across many domains and makes use of electronic computers.

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Biostatistics: Biology Medical Statistics Environmental Science

This document discusses several branches of statistics including biostatistics, environmental statistics, econometrics, quality control, and demography. It then provides a brief history of the term "statistics", noting that it originated from the Latin word for "state" and was initially used by rulers and governments to gather information about lands, populations, and other aspects of ruling. The document outlines how statistics has developed and changed over time from its initial governmental uses to the modern field that applies statistical analysis across many domains and makes use of electronic computers.

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Biostatistics is a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by

means of statistical analysis, and includes medical statistics.

Environmental statistics is the application of statistical methods to environmental science.


Weather, climate, air and water quality are included, as are studies of plant and animal
populations.

Econometrics is a branch of economics that applies statistical methods to the empirical


study of economic theories and relationships.

Quality control reviews the factors involved in manufacturing and production; it can make
use of statistical sampling of product items to aid decisions in process control or in accepting
deliveries.

Demography is the statistical study of all populations. It can be a very general science that
can be applied to any kind of dynamic population, that is, one that changes over time or
space.

http://math.wikia.com/wiki/Statistics
The Word statistics have been derived from Latin word Status or the Italian
word Statista, meaning of these words is Political State or a Government.
Shakespeare used a word Statist is his drama Hamlet (1602). In the past, the
statistics was used by rulers. The application of statistics was very limited but
rulers and kings needed information about lands, agriculture, commerce,
population of their states to assess their military potential, their wealth, taxation
and other aspects of government.
Gottfried Achenwall used the word statistik at a German University in 1749 which means
that political science of different countries. In 1771 W. Hooper (Englishman) used the
word statistics in his translation of Elements of Universal Erudition written by Baron B.F Bieford,
in his book statistics has been defined as the science that teaches us what is the political
arrangement of all the modern states of the known world. There is a big gap between the old
statistics and the modern statistics, but old statistics also used as a part of the present statistics.
During the 18th century the English writer has used the word statistics in their works, so statistics
has developed gradually during last few centuries. A lot of work has been done in the end of the
nineteenth century.
At the beginning of the 20th century, William S Gosset was developed the methods for decision
making based on small set of data. During the 20th century several statistician are active in
developing new methods,theories and application of statistics. Now these days the availability of
electronics computers is certainly a major factor in the modern development of statistics.

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