| Statistician Name |
During |
Nationality |
Known for |
| R. A. Fisher |
1890-1962 |
British |
Fisher's fundamental theorem |
| Karl Pearson |
1857-1936 |
British |
Pearson distribution |
| Gertrude Cox |
1900-1978 |
United States |
director of the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina |
| Frank Yates |
1902-1994 |
Manchester |
pioneers of 20th century statistics |
| John Tukey |
1915-2000 |
United States |
FFT algorithm |
| Student (William Sealy Gosset) |
1876-1937 |
England |
Work of Genichi Taguchi in the 1950s. |
| George E. P. Box |
1919 |
United Kingdom |
Time series analysis |
| David R. Cox |
1949 |
Maryland |
Assistant Principal at Southampton Middle School in Bel Air, Maryland |
| Jerome H. Friedman |
1930 |
United States |
Experimental proof of quarks |
| Bradley Efron |
1938 |
United States |
proposing the bootstrap resampling technique |
| F. N. David |
1909 |
England |
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