Math 153 DB1,DD1,DF1,EA1 Name: ____________________________

2/06

Test 1 (9 points):

Final due date: Date of Test1 Sections DB1,DD1 Friday 2/24/06,

Sections DF1, EA1 Wednesday 2/22/06. Assignment is not accepted late unless the instructor decides there are exceptional circumstances; you may be required to produce documentation. You are encouraged to do the assignment earlier and give it to me for safe-keeping. You may email the assignment to jdykacz@ccbcmd.edu

Read about people who are important in the history of statistics, including Sir Ronald Alymer Fisher, David Blackwell, and ONE of the following people listed in (3) below. For each person, you need present only three facts – 1) when the person lived (and died), 2) the education of the person, and 3) his/her contribution to statistics, probability, or mathematics.

1) Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher – the “grandfather” of statistics

2) David Blackwell – prominent African-American

3) Choose ONE of the following people.

A) Gertrude Cox (prominent female statistician)

B) Florence Nightingale (nurse)

C) Kung-Yee Liang (Chinese)

D) Francesca Dominici (Italian, contemporary) OR

Girolamo Cardano, 1500s Italian,)

E) Jerzy Neyman (……Polish)

F) Richard Tapia (Hispanic)

G) Chebyshev (Russian)

H) William Sealy Gosset (English/Irish)

I) Calyampudi R Rao (from India)

J) Gauss (German)

K) Anastasios Tsiatis (Greek-American)

L) Please see me if you want to choose another person.

Note: A good search engine is www.google.com

Note: You may use quotes to search for a phrase exactly, e.g. “Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher”

Note: You may use the + sign. Ronald+Fisher+statistics means Ronald AND Fisher AND statistics.

Note: The organization under www.amstat.org has information about statisticians.

See the other side for a form you may want to use.
Math 153 Name: ____________________

2/06

1. Sir Ronald Alymer Fisher

a) Year of birth & death or Living __________________________

b) Two facts (regarding the education of the person and his/her contribution to statistics, probability, or mathematics).

Please quote or give the web sites for your sources.

2. David Blackwell

a) Year of birth & death or Living __________________________

b) Two facts (regarding the education of the person and his/her contribution to statistics, probability, or mathematics).

Please quote or give the web sites for your sources.

3. _________________________________________________

a) Year of birth & death or Living __________________________

b) Two facts (regarding the education of the person and his/her contribution to statistics, probability, or mathematics).

Please quote or give the web sites for your sources.