Encyclopedia articles not only introduce Pearson but lead on to related people and topics—to W. K. Clifford, F. Galton, W. F. R. Weldon, W. Bateson, ‘Student’ (W. S. Gosset), R. A. Fisher, F. Y. Edgeworth, G. U. Yule, M. Greenwood, E. Mach, … to biometrics, chi-squared, correlation, eugenics, evolution, goodness of fit, method of moments, Pearson system, regression, …. .
M. E. Magnello (2008) Pearson, Karl, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr.. Vol. 6. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 190-194. here
M. E. Magnello (2005) Karl Pearson, Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 3 2005, 31-39, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
J. Woiak (2004) Pearson, Karl (1857-1936), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
J. Aldrich (2001) Pearson, Karl (1857-1936) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 11159-11163. Kidlington, Oxford: Pergamon.
M. E. Magnello (1999) Pearson, Karl, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, available to subscribing institutions at http://www.els.net/
M. E. Magnello (1998a) Karl Pearson, Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, (update), 653-656. New York: Wiley.
M. E. Magnello (1998b) Karl Pearson, Encyclopedia of Biostatistics 4, 3308-3315. Chichester: Wiley.
F. N. David (1997) Karl Pearson, in N. L. Johnson & S. Kotz (eds) Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, 150-151. New York: Wiley.
F. N. David (1985) Karl Pearson, Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, 6, 653-656. New York: Wiley.
H. M. Walker (1978) Karl Pearson, International Encyclopedia of Statistics, 2, 691-698. New York: Free Press.
C. P. Eisenhart (1974) Karl Pearson, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 10, 447-73. New York: Scribner. Not subject to copyright
P. Alexander (1967) Karl Pearson, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 6, 68-69. New York: Macmillan.
These articles are brief and introductory except Eisenhart’s which is a small monograph. The Encyclopedia of Biostatistics has the fullest set of links. Pearson also figures in several of the articles in the
Companion Encyclopedia to the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, 1994. London: Routledge.
