In statistics and biology there has long been a sense that Pearson’s work had been absorbed and that nothing new can be learnt from it. Yet occasionally one of his ideas is picked up and developed as e.g. the correlation curve
S. Blyth (1994) Karl Pearson and the Correlation Curve, International Statistical Review, 62, 393-403.
but more often they are re-invigorated without reference to the original as in
L. P. Hansen (1982) Large Sample Properties of Generalized Methods of Moments Estimators, Econometrica, 50, 1029-1054. JSTOR
