Karl Pearson's theoretical errors and the advances they inspired

Statistical Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 261-271

  Stigler, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chi square test; Degrees of freedom; History of statistics; Karl Pearson; Parametric inference; R. A. Fisher

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849143200     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-STS256     Document Type: Article

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