>be me
>uni student stat and phys
Assignment for stat
>History of Statistics in Astrophysics and astronomy
>Try to find history of stat in such fields
>Trying to make a timeline of when and which stat methods where used when and where, by who, etc.
>Only find methods used in fields, nothing about the history of the methods themselves.
>ask professor
>"Do an extensive google search" ok wow thank
write a small write up about some sunspots, a mention of wheat related to said sunspots and something about a numerical order to distances of planets (doesn't even count as statistics but had to write something)
>fail unit
>fail year
>get extension year to repeat only failed units
>History of Statistics
>same assignment a year later
>still cant find anything

So how does one find stuff for statistics in astrophysics and sutff related

Astronomy/Astrophysics thread specifically about statistics