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The Biological Stimulus to Multidimensional Data Analysis (2008)

Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Volume: 4, no. 2
Issue: 2

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: http://www.jehps.net/Decembre2008/Gower.pdf (Accessed on November 29, 2010). Part of a special issue, “About the History of Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis”
Language: English

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Data analysis Agriculture Systematics (biology) Computer science Computers and computing Biology Population genetics 20th century

In the following, I shall try to summarise developments over the past 100 years that have led to the current interest in data analysis and more particularly in multidimensional data analysis (see the Conclusion section for a discussion of these terms). Necessarily, my views are coloured by my own experience but I hope that some points of general interest will emerge. Developments may be divided into three periods: Prehistory (up to about 1950), The Early Computer Age (up to about 1980), and the current Later Computer Age. I shall concentrate on developments made during the first two periods and how they have influenced current practice. I conclude with some more general comments.

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Description Discussion of how data analysis was utilized and developed in the life sciences of the 20th century.

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Article Lebart, Ludovic (2008) Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis from Its Origins to 1980: Nine Contributions. Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique. unapi

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