Karl Pearson and the Scandinavian School of Statistics

2009/03/26 by Peter Guttorp, Georg Lindgren · 1 citation
Mathematics · Engineering · #Statistics Education and Methodologies #Probability and Statistical Research #Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient #Statistics #Work (physics) #Mathematics #Engineering

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2009.00069.x

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Abstract

Summary The relationship between Karl Pearson and the Scandinavian statisticians was more of a competitive than a collaborative nature. We describe the leading statisticians and stochasticists of the Scandinavian school, and relate some of their work to the work of Pearson.

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