In which year the word statistics was formally introduced in Encyclopedia Britanica?
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In 1791 Sir John Sinclair introduced the term 'statistics' into English in his Statistical Accounts of Scotland. In 1802 Laplace estimated the population of France to be 28,328,612.
Probability and statistics, the branches of mathematics concerned with the laws governing random events, including the collection, analysis, interpretation, and display of numerical data. Probability has its origin in the study of gambling and insurance in the 17th century, and it is now an indispensable tool of both social and natural sciences. Statistics may be said to have its origin in census counts taken thousands of years ago; as a distinct scientific discipline, however, it was developed in the early 19th century as the study of populations, economies, and moral actions and later in that century as the mathematical tool for analyzing such numbers. For technical information on these subjects, see probability theory and statistics.