Statistics has, of course, grown from its beginnings as a means to summarize social/population conditions (the median number of serfs per farm, average bushels

Statistics has, of course, grown from its beginnings as a means to summarize social/population conditions (the median number of serfs per farm, average bushels per acre, etc), yet: "estimating an accurate metric, (for example a 'central tendency'), from incomplete data" remains a central theme.