Karl Pearson

English eugenicist and polymath (1857–1936)

Karl 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.

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