凯特勒出身于比利时甘特市的一个小商人家庭,他对数学有着特殊的爱好,对统计学有着重要的贡献,被尊称为“国际统计会议之父”和“近代统计学之父”.人类的统计实践活动在原始社会就有了.自文艺复兴以后,人们注意到在诸如玩纸牌、掷骰子的赌博活动大量进行之后,会有某种类型的规律出现.在凯特勒的研究 Ketterer was born in a family of small businessmen in Gantt, Belgium. He has a special interest in mathematics and has made important contributions to statistics. He is widely known as the father of the International Statistical Conference and the father of modern statistics. "The human statistical practice activity has its roots in the primitive society. Since the Renaissance, people have noticed that after a lot of gambling activities such as playing cards and dice, there will be some kind of regularity. In Ketterle’s the study