Karl Pearson's theoretical errors and the advances they inspired

DOI10.1214/08-STS256zbMATH Open1327.62013arXiv0808.4032MaRDI QIDQ900464FDOQ900464

Authors: Stephen M. Stigler 

Publication date: 22 December 2015

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Karl Pearson played an enormous role in determining the content and organization of statistical research in his day, through his research, his teaching, his establishment of laboratories, and his initiation of a vast publishing program. His technical contributions had initially and continue today to have a profound impact upon the work of both applied and theoretical statisticians, partly through their inadequately acknowledged influence upon Ronald A. Fisher. Particular attention is drawn to two of Pearson's major errors that nonetheless have left a positive and lasting impression upon the statistical world.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.4032

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zbMATH Keywords

chi-square testdegrees of freedomKarl Pearsonparametric inferencehistory of statisticsR. A. Fisher

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03)

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