Warren Gilchrist
Emeritus Professor
Sheffield Hallam University

TITLE:  Restarting Statistics

ABSTRACT:
2011 is the centenary of the death of Sir Francis Galton. Galton was
the great innovator who from the 1850s developed the formulation and
standardisation of distributions, the common use of the Normal
distribution, probability plotting, regression, correlation and the
use of ordered data. However more mathematical statisticians, such a
Karl Pearson who wrote the great biography of Galton, redefined this
formulation of statistics to provide a more manageable mathematical
statistics and this became the statistics we were taught as students.
However if one returns to Galton’s original foundations and builds
from there a different view of statistics emerges which will be
explored in this seminar.