Eminent Victorians and early statistical societies |
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| Authors: | Eileen Magnello |
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| Institution: | Trained as a statistician before doing her doctorate at St Antony's College, Oxford in the history of science. She is a Research Associate at University College London and has published extensively on the statistical innovations of Karl Pearson. Her forthcoming book, Introducing Statistics;, which places elementary statistical concepts in their historical context, will be out in September. |
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| Abstract: | The Victorians who founded statistical societies had a passion for facts and a concern for the poor. They were a varied bunch: novelists, the inventor of the computer, a predictor of population catastrophe and a philosopher who had his own corpse preserved and put on public display. In the Royal Statistical Society's 175th anniversary year Eileen Magnello looks at the characters who helped to form it. |
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