Egon Sharpe Pearson (Hampstead, 11 August 1895 – London, 12 June 1980) a son of Karl Pearson, was like his father, a British statistician, and succeeded him as professor of statistics at University College London and as editor of the journal Biometrika. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society 1955–56.

Works

• On the Use and Interpretation of certain Test Criteria for the Purposes of Statistical Inference (coauthor Jerzy Neyman in Biometrika, 1928)
• The History of statistics in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (1929). Commented version of a series of conference by his father.
• On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses (coauthor 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, coauthor Maurice George Kendall)

External links

• Obituary by H. A. David

1895 births | 1980 deaths | 20th century mathematicians | British mathematicians | Statisticians | Fellows of the Royal Society | Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society

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