Egon Pearson

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Egon Sharpe Pearson (born August 11, 1895 in Hampstead , † June 12, 1980 Midhurst ) was a British statistician.

He is the son of Karl Pearson . Pearson followed his father as professor of statistics at University College London . He was editor of the magazine Biometrika . From 1955 to 1956 he was President of the Royal Statistical Society , which awarded him the Guy Medal in gold in 1955 . In 1966 he was accepted as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society .

Together with Jerzy Neyman, he developed a theory of hypothesis testing in which not only the null hypothesis is formalized, but also an alternative hypothesis. Even if this approach did not find a majority in scientific methodology in its pure form, it did influence the learned practice of statistical hypothesis testing and led to greater attention to test planning. In Germany, for example, Willi Hager has written a textbook on statistics in psychology that is entirely devoted to the Neyman-Pearson method, and several others have also made a name for themselves in questions of test planning.

The Neyman-Pearson lemma and the Neyman-Pearson test are named after Pearson.

Works

  • with Jerzy Neyman : On the Use and Interpretation of certain Test Criteria for the Purposes of Statistical Inference. In: Biometrika . 1928.
  • The History of statistics in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. 1929. (Versione commentata di un ciclo di conferenze di suo padre )
  • with Jerzy Neyman: On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses, 1933.
  • Karl Pearson: an appreciation of some aspects of his life and work. 1938.
  • Selected papers. 1966.
  • with Maurice George Kendall : Studies in the history of statistics and probability. 1969.

literature

  • E. Erdfelder, J. Bredenkamp: Hypothesis testing. In: T. Herrmann, WH Tack (ed.): Methodological foundations of psychology. (= Encyclopedia of Psychology. Subject area B, Series I. Volume 1). Hogrefe, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-8017-0522-6 , pp. 604-648.
  • F. Faul, E. Erdfelder, A.-G. Lang, A. Buchner: G * Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. In: Behavior Research Methods. 39, 2007, pp. 175-191.
  • W. Hager: Test planning to test psychological hypotheses. The derivation of predictions and the control of the determinants of the statistical test. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-8017-1751-8 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ entry on Pearson; Egon Sharpe (1895–1980) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  2. ↑ E. Erdfelder, J. Bredenkamp: Hypothesis test. In: T. Herrmann, WH Tack (ed.): Methodological foundations of psychology. (= Encyclopedia of Psychology. Subject area B, Series I. Volume 1). Hogrefe, Göttingen 1994, pp. 604-648.
  3. ↑ F. Faul, E. Erdfelder, A.-G. Lang, A. Buchner: G * Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. In: Behavior Research Methods. 39, 2007, pp. 175-191.
  4. ↑ W. Hager: Test planning for testing psychological hypotheses. The derivation of predictions and the control of the determinants of the statistical test. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Pearson, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pearson, Egon Sharpe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British statistician
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampstead
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1980
Place of death Midhurst