Talk:Karl Pearson

message: Much of the material for this article was taken from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson. I requested permission to use it for Wikipedia and received the following response on Jan. 8, 2003:
:Hi Sheldon,
:The informations is in the public domain, and this department is proud of the achievements of Karl Pearson and other pioneering statisticians.  It would be good if you used some of this information for his biographical entry in Wikpedia, provided you acknowledge the source, and/or link to our web page you cited.
:Cheers
:Tim
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:Dr Tim Downie
:Dept. Statistical Science
:University College London
:Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
:Ph:+44 (0)20 7679 1855
:Fax:+44 (0)20 7383 4703
For the record, the URL cited above should probably be http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Stats/department/pearson.html. Schutz 07:52, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of material 

message: What if I'm not interested in knowing the BBC's opinion of Karl Pearson? Can I be sure that he was "cold" because the BBC claims that as one of his characteristics?
205.188.116.6 17:50, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC 

message: Sorry it took five edits, but there was a lot of copyediting to do!
Yellow-bellied sapsucker (talk) 23:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyedits

message: Over on Wikipedia's page for William Sealy Gosset (not on the page for Pearson), we find:
"Gosset was a friend of both Pearson and Fisher, an achievement, for each had a massive ego and a loathing for the other."
Does anyone have any direct reference for this? Personally, I have no notion what so ever, one way or the other. Surely, such a strongly-worded assessment as "massive ego" and "loathing" calls for some referenced materials. Also, if Pearson really were such a person, if such can be documented, should not this remark pertaining to a difficult nature also be included on the page for Pearson? 
David Corliss (talk) 04:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Johnbibby (talk) 12:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on Pearson in Gosset article 

message: I think the article is in error here - Not sure he ever visited Vienna - Porter says he was due to do so, to visit Gee, but changed his mind
::::Johnbibby (talk) 20:48, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did he visit Vienna? 

message: I know that lots of sources state that KP was brought up as a Quaker. But what is the _evidence_? The article also states he was a Quaker 'until 1889'. Again - what is the evidence?
::::Johnbibby (talk) 20:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was  he a Quaker? 

message: The image which shows the Pearson Family Memorial at the end of the article, is misplaced in my opinion. And i think it should be placed along side peorson family section. However, I do not know how to change the position of a picture. Would someone kindly adjust the position of the image.Sajjad Arif (talk) 00:54, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. But as it says on my user page, I'm blind, so I don't know if it looks any good. If it looks horrendous now, somebody will surely come by and fix it. Graham87 03:28, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

text: I've removed it completely, as it was a poor quality photo of an unremarkable Victorian obelisk-style memorial in Crambe churchyard to Pearsons named Richard, Sarah, Thomas (all three died in 1859) and Elizabeth (died 1882), none of whom are mentioned in this article. Qwfp (talk) 08:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Position of the Family Memorial Image in the Article 

message: Surely Setion 6, namely the section on Pearson's contributions to statistics, should mention how the Pearson product moment correlation test, a test of correlation for use with parametric statistics, was developed by and named after Pearson? Vorbee (talk) 17:09, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient test

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