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I am always statistics-happy to stumble on a statistical factoid, e.g., who first used the term "degrees of freedom," "P-value," and even the word "statistics." The purpose of this article is to list statistical terms that I find irresistible in knowing who coined them and when.

• Additivity (in ANOVA) - Eisenhart, C. (1947)
• Biased (errors) - Bowley, A. L. (1897)
• Bonferroni inequalities - Feller, W. (1950)
• Chi-squared - Pearson, K. (1900)
• Cluster analysis - Tryon, R. C. (1939)
• Coefficient of correlation - Pearson, K. (1896)