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1981The Annals of Statistics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 465-474, DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176345451
Gauss and the invention of least squares
Stephen M. Stigler
Finding: Gauss introduced the least squares method in 1809 to solve problems in astronomy and geodesy, and it remains one of the most important statistical methods.
1908Biometrika (https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/6.1.1)
The Probable Error of a Mean
William Sealy Gosset
Finding: Proved that for small samples, the distribution of the mean has heavier tails than the normal distribution, and provided tables of critical values for statistical significance.
1763Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0053)
An Essay towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
Thomas Bayes
Finding: The derivation of the basic formulation of posterior distributions, laying the foundational framework for what is now known as Bayesian inference.