Karl Pearson and Testing Statistical Hypotheses Stephen M. Stigler Ernest Dewitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics University of Chicago Abstract
Karl
Pearson was born 150 years ago this year. I will present an
appreciation of Pearson that acknowledges some major errors that led to
major advances, even forming a background for the modern theory of
hypothesis testing. Some of this work is discussed, with the aim of
identifying some threads in common with the work of Erich Lehmann, who
reaches his 90th birthday this year.
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