the contributions of Statisticians in the field of Statistics.

1.Gertrude Cox

- Gertrude Cox, The First Lady Of Statistics

Gertrude Cox didn’t intend to become a statistician. After graduating from high school in 1918, she
decided she wanted to be a deaconess in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thinking that some
knowledge of psychology and craft could be useful in her chosen career, she enrolled at Iowa State
University to study these subjects. However, she chose to major in mathematics as that subject had
come naturally to her in high school. In order to pay her college expenses, she landed a job in the
computing lab of her calculus professor, George Snedecor. Encouraged by this experience, she went on
to study statistics, receiving Iowa State’s first Master’s degree in statistics a couple of years later.

2.Florence Nightingale

- Nightingale's calculations of the mortality rate showed that with an improvement of sanitary methods,
deaths would decrease. In February, 1855, the mortality rate at the hospital was 42.7 percent of the
cases treated (Cohen 131). When Nightingale's sanitary reform was implemented, the mortality rate
declined.

3.J. Stuart Hunter

- For many people, Hunter is best known as an author of one of the most successful textbooks
in statistics, Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building,
which he wrote with Bill Hunter and George Box. The first edition was published in 1978.

4.John Carl Gauss

- Statistics wouldn't be what it is today without Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German scientist. He was
born April 30, 1777, in Braunschweig and died Feb. ... Gauss recognized that he could build 50 pairs of
numbers that sum up to 101 like 100+1, 99+2,… So, after few minutes, he had calculated the answer:
5,050.

5. William Gosset

-William Sealy Gosset (1876-1937) was an immensely talented statistician to be remembered for

his contributions to the development of modern statistics. Better known to the statistical world by his
pseudonym, "Student," Gosset's name is associated with the discovery of the t-distribution and its use.
6.Ronald A. Fisher

- His contributions to statistics include promoting the method of maximum likelihood and deriving the
properties of maximum likelihood estimators, fiducial inference, the derivation of various sampling
distributions, founding principles of the design of experiments, and much more.

7. George E.P. Box

- George Edward Pelham Box FRS (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who
worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian
inference. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

8.Thomas Bayes

-Thomas Bayes, (born 1702, London, England—died April 17, 1761, Tunbridge Wells, Kent), English
Nonconformist theologian and mathematician who was the first to use probability inductively and who
established a mathematical basis for probability inference (a means of calculating, from the frequency
with which an event has occurred in prior trials, the probability that it will occur in future trials.