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Karl Pearson (1857–1936) has been called “the founder of the science of statistics.” [1] Helen Walker identifies the start of the first great wave of modern statistics with the publication of Galton’s Natural Inheritance in 1889 and with Pearson’s series of lectures on The Scope and Concepts of Modern Science in 1891 and his series in 1893 on Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. [2] Prior to this time statistical theory had been primarily the work of astronomers and mathematicians concerned with errors of measurement.

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  1. S. S. Wilks, “Karl Pearson: Founder of the Science of Statistics,” The Scientific Monthly, 53 (1941), 249 - 253.

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  2. Helen L. Walker, “The Contributions of Karl Pearson,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 53. No. 281 (March 1958), 11 - 22.

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  3. Quoted in H. L. Walker, op. cit.. p. 15 (J. B. S. Haldane was an eminent geneticist and statistician.)

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  4. Quoted in Egon S. Pearson. Karl Pearson: An Appreciation of Some Aspects of His Life and Work, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1938, p. 19.

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  1. Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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Peters, W.S. (1987). Karl Pearson. In: Counting for Something. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4638-1_11

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