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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Corrado Gini, List of statisticians, George Gallup, Giovanni Villani, Founders of statistics, Joseph M. Juran, Shlomo Sawilowsky, Gustav Fechner, Michel Gauquelin, Tony Greenfield, Radha Laha, Gabor J. Szekely, Eugene Lukacs, Francois Simiand, Eric Ghysels, Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Lukacs Distinguished Professor, Bruno de Finetti, Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Robert Schlaifer, Yulia Rossikova, Jan de Leeuw, Sedley Cudmore, Edward Wegman, Eugen Slutsky, Kantilal Mardia, William Kruskal, Andre-Michel Guerry, David X. Li, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Gheorghe Mihoc, Anders Hald, Aryeh Dvoretzky, Jan Visman, Chris Heyde, Octav Onicescu, Bogoljub Ko ovi, George Kingsley Zipf, Karl Ferdinand Ignatius, Leon Bottou, Lucien Le Cam, Michel Loeve, Estate V. Khmaladze, Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg, Waloddi Weibull, John Chambers, Ivan Fellegi, Wassily Hoeffding, Frederic J. Mouat, Vladimir Vapnik, Martin Wilk, John Panaretos, Naihua Duan, Dietrich Stoyan, Georg Rasch, Jose Enrique Moyal, Benjamin Gompertz, Statistical consultant, Ion Ionescu de la Brad, Eugene Seneta, Nail Bakirov, Louis Chen Hsiao Yun, Yuri Linnik, Robert H. Coats, Adrian Raftery, David Salsburg, Shmuel Gal, Pierre Gy, Henry O. Pollak, Boris Levit, Kari Karhunen, Phil Scarf, Tore Schweder, Carlo Emilio Bonferroni, Alexey Chervonenkis, Herbert Sichel, Renato Mannheimer, Ramanathan Gnanadesikan, Alain Desrosieres, Steve Kuzmicich, Antti Lange, Xavier Fernique, Jaroslav Hajek. Excerpt: Giovanni Villani (c. 1276 or 1280-1348, Italian pronunciation: ) was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica (New Chronicles) on the history of Florence. He was a leading statesman of Florence but later gained an unsavory reputation and served time in prison as a result of the bankruptcy of a trading and banking company he work...
