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I'm looking for interesting stories about statistics, machine learning, etc. Examples of stories I find interesting are the following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss developed the least squares method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_squares) in order to predict the occurrence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace developed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_smoothing method while working on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_problem

The origin of the term confusion matrix. What is the origin of the term confusion matrix?

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  • "Interesting" is in the eye of the beholder. We aren't set up for such discussions here. Please visit our [help] for information on what kinds of questions can be addressed. – whuber Aug 20 '15 at 14:30
  • I agree, it is subjective. I can remove the interesting from the title. I think the site is a great place for such discussions, like the one on jokes - http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1337/statistics-jokes – DaL Aug 21 '15 at 06:54
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    See @whuber's comment there: "please don't use the existence of this thread to justify creating new ones that fall outside our guidelines unless you think there is a very good reason to do so!" – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Aug 21 '15 at 11:24
  • OK, I see. I would be very happy to get answers to this question here. If you think it is suitable, please make it public. – DaL Aug 23 '15 at 06:15
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    There's a fun story about the origins of hypothesis testing and the Fisher's exact test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea. The history behind the Monte Carlo method is also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method. – RobertF Mar 07 '17 at 16:38

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