PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1834 as the Statistical Society of London. "The Royal Statistical Society is an international membership organisation with members in over 50 countries worldwide. We promote public understanding of statistics and provide professional support to users of statistics and statisticians."

Official Website:
http://www.rss.org.uk/

Location:
London, England

Founding Date:
15-Mar-1834

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Charles Babbage	Mathematician	26-Dec-1791	18-Oct-1871	Inventor of the Difference Engine
Alexander Dallas Bache	Physicist	19-Jul-1806	17-Feb-1867	First President, National Academy of Sciences
David H. Blackwell	Mathematician	24-Apr-1919	8-Jul-2010	Bayesian statistics
Charles Booth	Sociologist	30-Mar-1840	23-Nov-1916	Studied poverty in London
George E. P. Box	Mathematician	18-Oct-1919	28-Mar-2013	Statistician at University of Wisconsin
Charles Clarke	Politician	21-Sep-1950		UK Home Secretary, 2004-06
George Darwin	Astronomer	9-Jul-1845	7-Dec-1912	Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system
Francis Edgeworth	Mathematician	8-Feb-1845	13-Feb-1926	Pure Theory of Taxation
Ronald Fisher	Mathematician	17-Feb-1890	29-Jul-1962	Analysis of variance and covariance
Joseph Mortimer Granville	Doctor	1833	1900	Electric vibrator
John Maynard Keynes	Economist	5-Jun-1883	21-Apr-1946	Father of Keynesian economics
Simon Kuznets	Economist	30-Apr-1901	8-Jul-1985	National Income and Its Composition
Wassily Leontief	Economist	5-Aug-1906	5-Feb-1999	Structure of the American Economy
Florence Nightingale	Activist	12-May-1820	13-Aug-1910	Established nursing as a profession

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications