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The professionalisation of science began in the aftermath of the French Revolution and soon spread to other parts of the Continent, including the G During the late nineteenth century, British statisticians introduced a number of methods to relate and draw conclusions from statisti ...

...[[Poisson distribution]]. The process and the distribution are named after French mathematician [[Siméon Denis Poisson]]. The process itself was discovered i ...6 }}</ref> In the field of [[teletraffic engineering]], mathematicians and statisticians studied and used Poisson and other point processes.<ref name="haugen1995lif ...

...se of detailed numerical data (along with [[John Graunt]]) would influence statisticians and economists for some time, even though Petty's works were largely ignore Tâtonnement (roughly, French for ''groping toward'') was meant to serve as the practical expression of W ...

...ed in heat transfer calculations. It is named after the eighteenth century French physicist [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]] (1774–1862), and gives a simple index of t ...erials modeled as a continuous mass rather than as discrete particles. The French mathematician [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]] was the first to formulate such mod ...

words ''pris'' or ''prix'' (French), ''Preis'' (German), ''prezzo'' (Italian), ''precio'' (Spanish), ''preço'' ...grave, 2001.</ref> For economists all this may be "self-evident", but for statisticians, accountants, valuers and auditors it certainly is not. The value of the sa ...