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Sunday 9 August 2015

EGON PEARSON F.R.S. (1895-1980) Statistician



                                                      EGON PEARSON BIOGRAPHY


                                                                         


I remember Egon Pearson from the days when I was a postgraduate student at UCL (1970-72) He was an august-looking white-haired old man who would sit drinking tea in the staff common room looking extremely wise. He is most famous for the Neyman-Pearson lemma, and he was very much influenced by the fierce debate between his father Karl Pearson and Ronald Fisher which continued after Karl Pearson's death,







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