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[[File:The Normal Distribution.svg|thumb|283px|right|More [[Probability density function|probability density]] is found as one gets closer to the expected (mean) value in a [[normal distribution]]. Statistics used in [[Standardized testing (statistics)|standardized testing]] assessment are shown. The scales include ''[[standard deviations]], cumulative percentages, percentile equivalents, Z-scores, T-scores, standard nines,'' and ''percentages in standard nines.'']]
(contracted; show full)=10.1080/14786440009463897}}</ref> Galton and Pearson founded ''[[Biometrika]]'' as the first journal of mathematical statistics and [[biostatistics]] (then called biometry), and the latter founded the world's first university statistics department at [[University College London]].<ref>{{cite web|year=|title=Karl Pearson (1857–1936)|publisher=Department of Statistical Science&nbsp;– [[University College London]]|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/stats/department/pearson.html
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[[Ronald Fisher]] coined the term [[null hypothesis]] during the [[Lady tasting tea]] experiment, which "is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation".<ref>Fisher|1971|loc=Chapter II. The Principles of Experimentation, Illustrated by a Psycho-physical Experiment, Section 8. The Null Hypothesis</ref><ref name="oed">OED quote: '''1935''' R. A. Fisher, ''[[The Design of E(contracted; show full)[[Category:Data]]
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