{"id":6,"date":"2013-02-08T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T12:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/karlpearson\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2013-02-08T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T12:33:17","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/karlpearson\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">This website <\/span>There is a large and scattered literature on the work and life of Karl Pearson (1857-1936), applied mathematician, philosopher of science, biometrician, statistician, eugenist and contributor to \u201cthe woman\u2019s question.\u201d\u00a0 This guide contains a biography of Karl Pearson and a bibliography. It lists writings by statisticians, geneticists, several varieties of historian\u2014of science, of politics, of social thought, of feminism, of literature\u2014and sociologists of science. It tries to accommodate different interests and levels of sophistication. However the coverage is neither exhaustive nor uniform and the emphasis is on the history of statistics.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Key concepts and people<\/span>: Bayes\u2019 Theorem, biometry, \u03c7<sup>2<\/sup> goodness of fit, correlation, elasticity, eugenics, feminism, method of moments, Pearson curves, regression, socialism; Karl Pearson, William Bateson, Ronald Fisher, Francis Galton, William Sealy Gosset (\u201cStudent\u201d), Major Greenwood, John Maynard Keynes, Jerzy Neyman,. Egon Sharpe Pearson, Maria Sharpe, Olive Schreiner, W. F. R. Weldon, G. Udny Yule.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Links<\/span>\u00a0 This guide has <span style=\"color: black;\">external links <\/span>to <em><span style=\"color: red;\">free<\/span><\/em> sites, like the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk\/%7Ehistory\/\">MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive<\/a><\/em> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a> and to <em><span style=\"color: red;\">subscriber<\/span><\/em> sites, like <em>JSTOR. JSTOR<\/em> makes available most of the journal literature on Pearson; it also has excellent search facilities. For information on <em>JSTOR<\/em> and a list of participating institutions go to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\">JSTOR<\/a><\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Thanks<\/span>\u00a0to P. J. Bowler, A. W. F. Edwards, P. M. Lee, M. E. Magnello, T. M. Porter and S. M. Stigler for suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: green; font-family: Century Schoolbook; font-size: large;\">John Aldrich, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.<\/span><\/em><em><\/em><span style=\"color: green; font-family: Century Schoolbook; font-size: large;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economics.soton.ac.uk\/staff\/aldrich\/aldrich.htm\"><span style=\"color: green;\">home<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><span style=\"color: green; font-family: Century Schoolbook; font-size: large;\">Original version February 2001.<\/span><span style=\"color: green; font-family: Century Schoolbook; font-size: large;\"> Latest revision October 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website There is a large and scattered literature on the work and life of Karl Pearson (1857-1936), applied mathematician, philosopher of science, biometrician, statistician, eugenist and contributor to \u201cthe woman\u2019s question.\u201d\u00a0 This guide contains a biography of Karl Pearson and a bibliography. 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