Mathematics

Study data from S.M. Stigler et al provide new insights into statistics

  2008 NOV 3 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from the United States, "Karl Pearson played an enormous role in determining the content and organization of statistical research in his day, through his research, his teaching, his establishment of laboratories, and his initiation of a vast publishing program."

  "His technical contributions had initially and continue today to have a profound impact upon the work of both applied and theoretical statisticians, partly through their inadequately acknowledged influence upon Ronald A. Fisher," wrote S.M. Stigler and colleagues.

  The researchers concluded: "Particular attention is drawn to two of Pearson's major errors that nonetheless have left a positive and lasting impression upon the statistical world."

  Stigler and colleagues published the results of their research in Statistical Science (Karl Pearson's theoretical errors and the advances they inspired. Statistical Science, 2008;23(2):261-271).

  For additional information, contact S.M. Stigler, University Chicago, Dept. of Statistics, 5734 University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

  The publisher of the journal Statistical Science can be contacted at: Institute Mathematical Statistics, PO Box 22718, Beachwood, OH 44122, USA.

  Keywords: Statistics.

  This article was prepared by VerticalNews Mathematics editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2008, VerticalNews Mathematics via VerticalNews.com.