Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson was born in London on March 27th of 1857. His parents William
Pearson and Fanny Smith; his mother proceed from a sailors family who
navigated their own ships since Kingston to Hull; his father studied law in
Edinburgh and he was a successful lawyer and the queen adviser. Pearson's
fatherly family came from the North Riding of Yorkshire.
it is little known childhood about of Karl Pearson he was brought up in the
Church of England, he had a private education at the University College School.
Then, he went to the Rauli polyvalent school in Cambridge to study
mathematics
In 1875, Pearson won a scholarship to King's College at the University of
Cambridge, where he worked with famed math tutor Edward Routh. Then he
traveled to Germany to study a year in philosophy, physics, and law. In 1884,
Pearson served a professor of applied mathematics and mechanics at
University College London.
In 1885, he founded a "Club of men and women" to discuss, from an
anthropological and historical perspective, the social position of women and the
possibility of a non-sexual friendship between men and women. In 1889, he
proposed marriage to the club's secretary, Maria Sharpe, who married him in
1890. Karl and Maria had two daughters, they were called Sigrid Loetitia
Pearson and Helga Sharpe Pearson. They also had a son named Egon Sharpe
Pearson. Maria died in 1928 and the following year Karl married Margaret Child,
a colleague at the University of London. Parson lived most of his life in London.
The nineteenth century was preceded in its entirety by Queen Victoria who
ruled from 1837 to 1901 when she died after 64 years remained in history for
having starred in one of the most prosperous moments in the history of the
United Kingdom, as well as the monarch What more time on the throne of
England.
During this time there was the famous opium war with China, the product came
from England and the United States, which generated an epidemic of addicts to
this drug
Through his mathematical work and the development of his institution, Pearson
stood out in the creation of modern statistics. The basis of the statistical
mathematics of his hard work on the method of approximation of least squares,
developed at the beginning of the XIX century to estimate the quantities using
the theory of probability. Pearson relied on these studies to create a new field
whose task was to manage and make inferences from data in almost all fields.
A statistician, Pearson emphasized measuring correlations and fitting curves to
the data, and for the latter purpose developed the new chi-square distribution.
Rather than just dealing with mathematical theory, Pearson's papers most often
applied to the tools of statistics to scientific problems. With the help of his first
assistant, George Udny Yule, Pearson built up a biometric laboratory on the
model of the engineering laboratory at University College. As his resources
expanded, he was able to recruit a devoted assistant group. In 1901, assisted
by Weldon and Galton, Pearson founded the journal Biometrika, the first journal
of modern statistics.
Pearson's great distractions were caused by his preference for the analysis of
continuous curves in the place of discrete units that antagonized William
Bateson, a pioneering Mendelian geneticist. Pearson argued with doctors and
economists who used the statistics incorrectly without mastering this field. And
he fought with statisticians as well, including many of his own students, such as
Yule, Major Greenwood, and Raymond Pearl. His worst argument was with
Ronald Aylmer Fisher. In the 20s and 30s, whoever gained recognition while
Pearson lost it. After his retirement in 1933, Pearson's position at University
College is divided between Fisher and Pearson and Egon.
"Carl" changed his name to "Karl" when the University of Heidelberg changed
the way of writing his name when he enrolled in 1879, although it was
supposedly until 1884 when he finally adopted "Karl", probably by Karl Marx,
who knew, finally Pearson made universally known as "KP".
In 1891 he met Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, a zoologist who had some
interesting problems that required solutions. Pearson's collaboration in
biometrics and evolutionary theory paid off and lasted until Weldon died in
1906. Weldon had introduced Pearson to Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles
Darwin, who was interested in aspects of evolution, such as inheritance. and
eugenics. Pearson became the protege of Galton
Pearson died on March 27, 1857, London, the United Kingdom he was brushed
at Church Of St Michael and today he is remembered for being a prominent
British scientist, mathematician, and thinker, who established the discipline of
mathematical statistics. He developed intense research on the application of
statistical methods in biology and was the founder of biostatistics.
undoubtedly Pearson is a very important person in statistics so there is a great
admiration towards me from all the contributions he made and today we
continue to use frequently in the statistical applications, I think that one of the
most important contributions was the development of probabilistic models that
allow more accurate and applied calculations.