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long explanations on origin and development of statistics
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1. origin : the word statistics is derived from the Latin word status or the Italian word statista and meaning of these words is political state or government. Shakespeare used the word status in his drama Hamlet in 1602 . In the past statistics was used by rulers.
2. development : the initial development of statistics in the sixteenth and seventeenth century was motivated by the need to make sense of the large amount of data collected by population surveys in the emerging European Nation states. In the 19th Century statistics started to be used to make sense of the wealth of new scientific data.