<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for your answer Dr Karl W., but I am lookinf for an explanation > about the importance of this Galton Board. > The real importance of this Galton Board in relation to Statistical history > and/or real life > Thanks again > Ivan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- We're talking about 1893 when they didn't have electronics, Galton's board of nails, shown as an illustration in his book, was a device to show that random events (impacts on balls) tended to a normal distribution of final position. It was in those days when random events (in actualality, not in theory) were only accepted based on scientific discovery (this was just after Darwin's impact on science). You have to kinda look at it in terms of what Galton and Pearson were doing, describing nature in terms of mathematical structures.
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