Egon Pearson

Egon Sharpe Pearson ( born August 11, 1895 in Hampstead, † June 12 1980 Midhurst ) was a British statistician.

He is the son of Karl Pearson. Pearson succeeded his father as professor of statistics at University College London. He was editor of the journal Biometrika. From 1955 to 1956 he was president of the Royal Statistical Society, in 1955 awarded him the Guy Medal in Gold. In 1966 he was admitted as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society.

The Neyman -Pearson lemma is named after him.

Works

  • On the Use and Interpretation of Certain Test Criteria for Purposes of Statistical Inference the ( co -author Jerzy Neyman in Biometrika, 1928)
  • The History of statistics in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries ( 1929). Version comme tata di un ciclo di di suo padre conferenze
  • On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses ( co -author Jerzy Neyman, 1933)
  • Karl Pearson: an appreciation of some aspects of his life and work (1938 )
  • Selected papers (1966 )
  • Studies in the history of statistics and probability (1969, co -author Maurice George Kendall )
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