1880s
1885 Karl Benz designs 4-stroke engine for use in his automobile
1888 Francis Galton introduces the “co-relation” coefficient
1908
First Model T off Henry Ford’s production line
William Gossett’s t statistic
1920s
1927 Ford Model A enters production
1925 ANOVA appears in Fisher’s Statistical Methods for Research Workers
What’s changed since 1920?
If you drive one of these cars today, it would be in an antiques parade.
- Almost all driving is on paved roads
- Highways and high speeds
- Concerns about …
- safety
- pollution
- Traffic
- We depend on cars hour by hour, so they must be reliable.