Angeles University

Foundation

Angeles City

Assignment in
BIOSTATISTICS

(History of
Biostatistics)

Submitted by: Elaine

Laiza Conception
Paniza

Submitted to: Ma’am

Pinky Lumba

Time

Anceint Greece
 Graunt, Petty -Studied affairs of
state, vital statistics of
17Th Century Pascal, Bernoulli population.

-Study probability
theory through games
of chance.
Laplace, Gauss

18Th Century -Normal curve,

Adolph Quetelet regression through
study of astronomy.
19Th Century
-Astronomer who first
Galton applied Statistical
analysis to human
biology.

-Studied genetic
variations in humans
Spearman (used regression and
correlation).

-Pyschologist who
Kendal
developed a non-
parametric equivalent
of the correlation
coefficient.

Keuls -Statistician who

developed another
non-parametric
equivalent of the
correlation of the
Pearson coefficient.
20th century (early)
-Agronomist who
developed multiple
comparison
procedure.

Gosett (student)
-Studied natural
selection theory usinf
correlation. Formed
first academic
department of
Contributor Contribution
statistics, helped
-Ideas, no Quantitative developed the chi-
Philosophers
analysis square.
-Studied the process
of brewing, developed
student’s test. -Evulotionary biologist
developed ANOVA
Fisher stressed the
importance of
experimental design.

Biochemist studied
Wilcoxon pesticides, non-
20th century (later)
parametric equivalent
of two-sample test.

-Economist who
developed the non-
Kruskal, Wallis parametric equivalent
of ANOVA.