In the original sense of the word, "statistics" was the science of Statecraft: to the political arithmetician of the eighteenth century, its function was to be the eyes and ears of the central government.


Presidential Address, First Indian Statistical Conference, Sankhya, 1938, Volume 4, 1938 (p. 14)

Ronald Fisher Quotes

In the original sense of the word, statistics was the science of Statecraft: to the political arithmetician of the eighteenth century, its function...

In the original sense of the word, statistics was the science of Statecraft: to the political arithmetician of the eighteenth century, its function...

In the original sense of the word, statistics was the science of Statecraft: to the political arithmetician of the eighteenth century, its function...

In the original sense of the word, statistics was the science of Statecraft: to the political arithmetician of the eighteenth century, its function...