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Showing pages tagged with the category 'History of Statistics section'
Event report: RSS contributes to the International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science
Event report: The Flawed Genius of William Playfair
Event report: “Florence Nightingale and Statistics: From Then to Now”
History section call for new members
Mediaeval Statistics - conference report
History of Statistics section: The statistician and the 'stats’ - RA Fisher and the RSS
Measuring EU inflation – The foundations of the HICP
2021 Annual General Meeting of the History of Statistics Section
#CottonViz data visualisation challenge: winners
Conference 2021: Women in statistics and Wikipedia edit-a-thon sessions
Mary Eleanor Spear #dataviz competition for children and adults!
International Women's Day webinar - report
History of Statistics Section meeting: The history of market research
2020 AGM of the History of Statistics Section
History of Statistics Section seeks new committee members
History of Statistics / Official Statistics section meeting: The history of inflation measurement in
History of Statistics Section meeting: Counting the dead in WW2
History of Statistics and YSS joint meeting: Women in statistics
History of Statistics section: Developments in Polling and Election Outcomes
History of Statistics section: The RSS building and its environs
History of Statistics Section seeks new members for 2020 committee
2019 Annual General Meeting of the History of Statistics Section
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