Karl Pearson : evolutionary biology and the emergence of a modern theory of statistics (1884-1936)
This thesis examines the development of modern statistical theory and its emergence as a highly specialised mathematical discipline at the end of the nineteenth century. The statistical work of the mathematician and statistician Karl Pearson (1857-1936), who almost singularly created the modern theo...
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University of Oxford
1994
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389989 |