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A physician and writer, the creator of John Bull, John Arbuthnot is known in statistics for his translation of Huygens’ book on probability and for the first use of a test of significance.
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Bellhouse, D. (2001). John Arbuthnot. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_8
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