Karl Pearson (1857-1936)
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Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was a person.
- See: Statistician, Biometrician, Mathematical Statistics, Pearson's Chi-Squared Test, Meteorology, Social Darwinism, Principal Components Analysis.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson Retrieved:2014-9-20.
- Karl Pearson FRS (originally named Carl ; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936 ) was an influential English mathematician and biometrician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline
of mathematical statistics, [1] and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics, meteorology, and theories of Social Darwinism and eugenics. [2] A major proponent of eugenics, Pearson was also a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton.
In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. A sesquicentenary conference was held in London on 23 March 2007, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth.
- Karl Pearson FRS (originally named Carl ; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936 ) was an influential English mathematician and biometrician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline
- ↑ "[...] the founder of modern statistics, Karl Pearson." – Bronowski, Jacob (1978). The Common Sense of Science, Harvard University Press, p. 128.
- ↑ "The Concept of Heredity in the History of Western Culture: Part One," The Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, p. 237.
1901
- (Pearson, 1901) ⇒ Karl Pearson. (1901). “On Lines and Planes of Closest Fit to Systems of Points in Space" In: Philosophical Magazine, 2(11). doi:10.1080/14786440109462720.
1900
- (Pearson, 1900) ⇒ Karl Pearson. (1900). “On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen from random sampling.” In: Philosophical Magazine Series 5. 50 (302): 157–175. doi:10.1080/14786440009463897.