April 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Karl Pearson, who contributed to statistics the correlation coefficient, principal components, the (increasingly-maligned) p-value, and much more. Pearson was one of a trio of founding fathers of modern statistics, the others being Francis Galton and Ronald Fisher. Galton, Pearson and Fischer were deeply involved withContinue reading “Historical Spotlight: Eugenics – journey to the dark side at the dawn of statistics”
