It all depends on what you mean by statistical methods. Consider Graunt's
"Observations". Incidentally, Laplace applied statistical methods to,
e.g., estimating the pop. of France by a ratio estimate - Peter M Lee
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Allan Reese wrote:
> In a discussion on the Today programme this morning, between a "professor
> of physics" and a "profession of social science", the latter claimed that
> statistical methods had been applied in the first instance in the social
> and biological sciences. Clearly he had not heard of Gauss.
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> R. Allan Reese Email: [log in to unmask]
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