Robert Percival Porter (June 30, 1852 – February 28, 1917) was an American journalist, diplomat, and statistician who wrote on economic subjects.[1] He served as Superintendent of the Census (1889–1893). In the statistical field, the first use of the term "computer" comes in an article in the Journal of the American Statistical Association archives by Porter in 1891. The article discusses about the use of Hermann Hollerith's machine in the 11th Census of the United States.[2][3]
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^The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1904. pp. 261–17. Retrieved 14 July 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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