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    Karl Pearson FRS FRSE (⫽ˈpɪərsən⫽; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English eugenicist, mathematician, and biostatistician. He...
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  • 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...
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    The Pearson distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions. It was first published by Karl Pearson in 1895 and subsequently extended...
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  • chi-squared distribution. Its properties were first investigated by Karl Pearson in 1900. In contexts where it is important to improve a distinction between...
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  • 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...
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    chi-squared distribution. Karl Pearson (Pearson 1895, pp. 357, 360, 373–376) also showed that the gamma distribution is a Pearson type III distribution....
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    represent an unrealistically perfect correlation). It was developed by Karl Pearson from a related idea introduced by Francis Galton in the 1880s, and for...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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