The term contingency table was first used by Karl Pearson in "On the Theory of Contingency and Its Relation to Association and Normal Correlation", part of the Drapers' Company Research Memoirs Biometric Series I published in 1904.
Taбелата на контигенција за прв пат е употребена од Karl Pearson во On the Theory of Contingency and Its Relation to Association and Normal Correlation, part of the Drapers’ Company Research Memoirs Biometric Series објавена во 1904.