Karl Pearson FRS FRSE (/ˈpɪərsən/; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited...

The Pearson distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions. It was first published by Karl Pearson in 1895 and subsequently extended...

Egon Sharpe Pearson CBE FRS (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a British...

chi-squared distribution. Its properties were first investigated by Karl Pearson in 1900. In contexts where it is important to improve a distinction between...

Karl Pearson. It is bestowed biennially at the ISI World Statistics Congress. The winner of the prize receives 5,000 euros and gives the Karl Pearson...

chi-squared distribution. Karl Pearson (Pearson 1895, pp. 357, 360, 373–376) also showed that the gamma distribution is a Pearson type III distribution....

represent an unrealistically perfect correlation). It was developed by Karl Pearson from a related idea introduced by Francis Galton in the 1880s, and for...

Merriman, whose works were criticized by Karl Pearson in his 1900 paper. At the end of the 19th century, Pearson noticed the existence of significant skewness...

Cromwell. Inconclusive tests culminated in a detailed scientific study by Karl Pearson and Geoffrey Morant, which concluded that there was a "moral certainty"...

Introduced by Karl Pearson, and also known as the Yule phi coefficient from its introduction by Udny Yule in 1912 this measure is similar to the Pearson correlation...

The standard measure of a distribution's kurtosis, originating with Karl Pearson, is a scaled version of the fourth moment of the distribution. This number...

variation that natural selection acted upon. The biometric school, led by Karl Pearson followed Charles Darwin's idea that small differences were important...

interactions between them. The term contingency table was first used by Karl Pearson in "On the Theory of Contingency and Its Relation to Association and...

those individuals who presented the same lengths for a given long bone. Karl Pearson (1899) applied stature regression formulae utilizing all of Rollet's...

publication in 1992. Biometrika was established in 1901 by Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and Raphael Weldon to promote the study of biometrics. The history of...

Karl Pearson (born 14 August 1974) is an English cricketer. Pearson is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. He was born at Stourbridge...

ISBN 978-0-521-88525-6. Pearson, Karl (1914a). The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton. Vol. 1. Cambridge: University Press. Pearson, Karl (1914b). The Life...

at the turn of the century, was led by the work of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, who transformed statistics into a rigorous mathematical discipline used...

scientific journal covering human genetics. It was established in 1925 by Karl Pearson as the Annals of Eugenics, with as subtitle, Darwin's epigram "I have...

eugenics and human genetics. Her early career as a statistical assistant to Karl Pearson (1857–1936) marked the beginning of a lifelong professional association...

University of London to fund a permanent Chair of Eugenics filled by Karl Pearson. Pearson created the Department of Applied Statistics which combined the...

introduced by Karl Pearson, the founder of mathematical statistics, in lectures delivered in 1892 at University College London. Pearson's term is sometimes...

this phenomenon in a technical paper in 1951, but the statisticians Karl Pearson (in 1899) and Udny Yule (in 1903) had mentioned similar effects earlier...

rediscovered by the English mathematician Karl Pearson in the context of goodness of fit, for which he developed his Pearson's chi-squared test, published in 1900...

unexplained, effect. The p-value was first formally introduced by Karl Pearson, in his Pearson's chi-squared test, using the chi-squared distribution and notated...

moments of a distribution to the population moments dates back at least to Karl Pearson.[1] Suppose that the parameter θ {\displaystyle \theta } = ( θ 1 , θ...

and systems biology. The term biophysics was originally introduced by Karl Pearson in 1892. The term biophysics is also regularly used in academia to indicate...

economics, and sociology. The term random walk was first introduced by Karl Pearson in 1905. Realizations of random walks can be obtained by Monte Carlo...

t-distribution also appeared in a more general form as Pearson type IV distribution in Karl Pearson's 1895 paper. However, the t-distribution, also known...

distinguished applied mathematician Louis Napoleon George Filon, who worked with Karl Pearson. Guy Patin, sa vie, sa correspondance (1862) Les Mariages de Londres...