The Journey of Statistics as a Subject – from the Past to Present

These days one can find the use of Statistics in almost every field of the daily life. Actually uncertainty is a common part of life, not only in recent days but from the distant past, and with the passage of time, efforts were made to quantify and analyze them. In this article, the history of evolution of Statistics as a subject is discussed in brief. Discussions are made about the earliest evidences of data collection, creation of mathematical definition of probability, beginning of few important fields of the subject along with the contributions of some renowned persons in it and how the domain of the word Statistics have changed over time. Development of the subject in India is also discussed.