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* [[Francis Galton]] - his emphasis on [[order-statistics]] and [[percentiles]]

* [[Arthur Bowley]] - used precursors of the [[stemplot]] and [[five-figure summary]] (Bowley actually used seven - the median, along with extremes, quartiles and ''deciles'')

* [[Andrew Ehrenberg's]]'s philosophy of [[Datadata Reductionreduction]] (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]].