Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
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an English mathematician and biostatistician. Credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics, he founded the world's first university statistics department.
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Born
Carl Pearson 27 March 1857 Islington, London, England
Died
27 April 1936 (aged 79) Coldharbour, Surrey, England
Nationality
British
Known for
Principal component analysis Pearson distribution Pearson's chi-squared test Pearson's r Phi coefficient Chi-square distribution Contingency table Histogram Kurtosis Mode Random walk The Grammar of Science
Fields
Lawyer, Germanist, eugenicist, mathematician and statistician (primarily the last)
Alma mater
King's College, Cambridge University of Heidelberg
Awards
Darwin Medal (1898) Weldon Memorial Prize (1912)
Institutions
University College, London King's College, Cambridge
Academic advisors
Francis Galton
adultbasic
Britain
era
1800+
Influenced
Albert Einstein, Henry Ludwell Moore, James Arthur Harris
Notable students
Philip Hall John Wishart Julia Bell Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen