[R] [OT] Important stat dates

Marc Schwartz (via MN)
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:35:03 -0000

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 11:57 -0500, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> Way Off Topic:
>
> Is anyone aware of a website that contains important dates
> in statistics history, please?
>
> Maybe a sort of "This Day in Statistics", please?
>
> I thought that my students might get a kick out of that.
>
> (actually I will probably enjoy it more than them!)
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> I tried (via Google) "today in statistics" and "today in
statistics
> history" but nothing worthwhile appeared.


Here are two pages that you might find helpful:

  http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/welcome.htm

  http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/Figures.htm

Both have additional references and reciprocal links.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz