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Brief History of the Interface of Computing and Statistics which Preceded Data Mining's Birth
Author(s) -
Goodman Arnold
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
statistical analysis and data mining: the asa data science journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1932-1872
pISSN - 1932-1864
DOI - 10.1002/sam.101
Subject(s) - computer science , citation , information retrieval , perspective (graphical) , library science , artificial intelligence
There exists considerable documentation on the separate history of computing and statistics, but there is only very limited documentation on the common history of computing and statistics. For both professional and personal reasons, I have long been interested in the common historical ancestors of computing and statistics. There have been numerous instances, when the ancestors of computing technology and ancestors of statistical methodology have been accomplished by the same mathematicians. This overview [1, 2] traces a real interweaving of the foundations for computing hardware and software with the foundations for probability and statistics. Since many famous mathematicians have contributed to both, this interweaving has a far greater breadth and depth than one might expect initially. It also provides both an introduction to, and foundation for, one of the 21st century’s most promising collaborations, that between data mining and statistics.