Abstract

Statistics has penetrated almost all branches of science and allareas of human endeavor. At the same time, statistics is not only misunderstood, misused and abused to a frightening extent, but it is also oftenmuch disliked by students in colleges and universities. This lecture discusses/covers/addresses the historical development of statistics, aiming at identifying the most important turning points that led to the present stateof statistics and at answering the questions “What went wrong with statistics?” and “What to do next?”.ACM Computing Classification System (1998): A.0, A.m, G.3, K.3.2.

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