File Williamherbertarmor.jpg thumb right 250px The young William Herbert wearing a Greenwich armour . Portrait at the National Museum in Cardiff. William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, 1st Baron Herbert of Cardiff , Order of the Garter KG c. 1501 17 March 1570 was a Tudor period noble and courtier. Herbert was the son of Sir Richard Herbert and Margaret Cradock. ref name burke1 John Bernard Burke. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire , 14th Edition, Colburn, 1852. pg 783. http books.google.com books?id mDA AAAAcAAJ&pg PA783&dq william herbert, 1st earl of pembroke&hl en&ei IynXTqqgKIfh0QGy tT9DQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 3&ved 0CDoQ6AEwAjgK v onepage&q william 20herbert 2C 201st 20earl 20of 20pembroke&f false Google eBook ref His father was an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 1423 1469 William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke of the eighth creation 1468 by his mistress, Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt. ref name burke1 Early life William Herbert s early life was distinguished by intense ambition coupled with an equally fierce temper and hot headed nature. Described by John Aubrey as a mad fighting fellow, the young Herbert began his career as a gentleman servant to the earl of Worcester. However, when he killed a city sheriff after being arrested for unknown reasons in Bristol, he fled to France. Upon arrival, he immediately joined the service of Francis I of France King Francis I as a soldier, earning a reputation for courage and great skill on the battlefield. In a short time he became eminent, and was favoured by the king, who afterwards recommended him to Henry VIII of England Henry VIII of England, who much valued him, and heaped favours and honours upon him. For his service to King Henry, Herbert was granted the estates of Wilton, Remesbury, and Cardiff Castle, and his position as a man of means was secured. Herbert s first wife, Anne Parr, Lady Herbert Anne Parr , wa ... more details
Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design , Sampling statistics sampling , data collection , Summary statistics data summarization , Estimator estimation , prediction and statistical inference inference from those results to the statistical population population from which the experimental sample was drawn. This article lists statisticians who have been instrumental in the development of mathematical statistics theoretical and applied statistics . Founders of statistics Sort order is year of birth John Graunt English, 1620 1674 Pioneer of demography who produced the first life table ref Willcox, Walter 1938 http www.jstor.org stable 1400906 The Founder of Statistics . Review of the International Statistical Institute 5 4 321 328. ref Thomas Bayes English, 1702 1761 Developed the interpretation of probability now known as Bayes theorem ref cite web url http www.economics.soton.ac.uk staff aldrich Figures.htm ba work Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics title Thomas Bayes publisher University of Southampton accessdate ref Pierre Simon Laplace French, 1749 1827 Co invented Bayesian statistics . Invented Exponential family exponential families Laplace transform , conjugate prior distributions, asymptotic analysis of estimators including negligibility of regular priors . Used Maximum likelihood maximum likelihood and posterior mode estimation and considered Robust statistics robust loss functions William Playfair Scottish, 1759 1823 Pioneer of statistical graphics Carl Friedrich Gauss German, 1777 1855 Invented least squares estimation methods with Adrien Marie Legendre Legendre . Used loss functions and Maximum likelihood maximum likelihood estimation Adolphe Quetelet Belgian, 1796 1874 Pioneered the use of probability and statistics in the social sciences Florence Nightingale English, 1820 1910 Applied statistical analysis to health problems, contributing to th ... more details
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