Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson (March 27, 1857 – April 27, 1936) was a major contributor to the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. He founded the Department of Applied Statistics at University College London in 1911; it was the first university statistics department in the world.

Publications

• The New Werther (1880)
• The Trinity, A Nineteenth Century Passion Play (1882)
• Die Fronica (1887)
• The Ethic of Freethought (1886)
• The Grammar of Science (1892)
• On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves (1894)
• Skew variation in homogeneous material (1895)
• Regression, heredity and panmixia (1896)
• On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to hove arisen from random sampling (1900)
• Tables for Statisticians and Biometricians ((1914))
• Tables of Incomplete Beta Function (1934)
• The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton (3 vol.: 1914, 1924, 1930). Available in full at http://galton.org