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* [[Arthur Lyon Bowley]] used precursors of the stemplot and [[five-number summary]] (Bowley actually used a "[[seven-number summary|seven-figure summary]]", including the extremes, [[decile]]s and [[quartile]]s, along with the median—see his ''Elementary Manual of Statistics'' (3rd edn., 1920), p. 62<ref>Elementary Manual of Statistics (3rd edn., 1920)https://archive.org/details/cu31924013702968/page/n5</ref>– he defines "the maximum and minimum, median, quartiles and two deciles" as the "seven positions").
* [[Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg|Andrew Ehrenberg]] articulated a philosophy of [[data reduction]] (see his book of the same name).
Francis Galton emphasized order statistics and quantiles.
Arthur Lyon Bowley used precursors of the stemplot and five-number summary (Bowley actually used a "seven-figure summary", including the extremes, deciles and quartiles, along with the median—see his Elementary Manual of Statistics (3rd edn., 1920), p. 62[11]– he defines "the maximum and minimum, median, quartiles and two deciles" as the "seven positions").
Andrew Ehrenberg articulated a philosophy of data reduction (see his book of the same name).
The [[Open University]] course ''Statistics in Society'' (MDST 242), took the above ideas and merged them with [[Gottfried Noether]]'s work, which introduced [[statistical inference]] via coin-tossing and the [[median test]].
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