Studies in the history of probability and statistics, L: Karl Pearson and the Rule of Three

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stigler, Stephen M.
• 署名单位: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: BIOMETRIKA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0006-3444
• DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr046
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 114
• 关键词: fisher

摘要

Karl Pearson's role in the transformation that took the 19th century statistics of Laplace and Gauss into the modern era of 20th century multivariate analysis is examined from a new point of view. By viewing Pearson's work in the context of a motto he adopted from Charles Darwin, a philosophical theme is identified in Pearson's statistical work, and his three major achievements are briefly described.