Abstract: The central theme of the paper is to shed light on the history of invention of statistics. In this paper, a comprehensive review of literature in ‘statistics invented as regression’ has been made. Covered the definition of statistics in the changed context, this paper frameworks sufficient debate and discussions about regression analysis considered to be the invention of statistics as a discipline. In the paper, regression in the context of least square theory invention is discussed. And, enclosed is, the debate among Legendre and Gauss, who to be taken for the inventor of least square theory. Comprehensively put forward is, when and who invented this powerful and most flexible discipline regression, which one day had to be the invention of the sole subject statistics. This paper interests any individual who wants to know how statistics was invented and what that was at the very first, was considered to be the subject statistics.
Keywords: definition of statistics, least square theory, regression.
Title: REGRESSION INVENTED AS STATISTICS
Author: Chuda Prasad Dhakal
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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