STATISTICIAN

Karl Pearson

1857 - 1936

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Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Pearson has received more than 1,077,103 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Karl Pearson is the 3rd most popular statistician (down from 2nd in 2019), the 663rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 630th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Statistician.

Karl Pearson is most famous for his contributions to the field of statistics. He is considered one of the founders of mathematical statistics and is often referred to as the father of modern statistics.

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Among STATISTICIANS

Among statisticians, Karl Pearson ranks 3 out of 8. Before him are Francis Galton, and Thomas Bayes. After him are Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, C. R. Rao, Joseph Kruskal, and Gertrude Mary Cox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Karl Pearson ranks 29. Before him are Thorstein Veblen, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Ronald Ross, Georg Michaelis, and Joseph Babinski. After him are George Hendrik Breitner, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Otto von Below, Edward Emerson Barnard, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Max Klinger. Among people deceased in 1936, Karl Pearson ranks 36. Before him are Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Róbert Bárány, Moritz Schlick, Robert E. Howard, Anne Sullivan, and Georg Michaelis. After him are Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Georgy Chicherin, Julius Schreck, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Heinrich Rickert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Karl Pearson ranks 663 out of 8,785. Before him are Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), Patrick Blackett (1897), Bernard Lewis (1916), Philip Pullman (1946), and Desmond Llewelyn (1914). After him are Sean Bean (1959), John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), Leslie Howard (1893), and Bill Wyman (1936).

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Among STATISTICIANS In United Kingdom

Among statisticians born in United Kingdom, Karl Pearson ranks 3. Before him are Francis Galton (1822), and Thomas Bayes (1702). After him are Ronald Fisher (1890).

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