Nationality British Name Egon Pearson | Parents Karl Pearson | |
Doctoral students George E. P. BoxBhaskar Kumar GhoshPao-Lu HsuNorman Lloyd Johnson Died June 12, 1980, London, United Kingdom Books Biometrika tables for statisticians, Joint Statistical Papers, selected papers of E.S. Pearson, Selected Papers Grandparents William Pearson, Fanny Smith Similar People Karl Pearson, Jerzy Neyman, Maurice Kendall | ||
Egon pearson
Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children and the son of Karl Pearson and, like his father, a leading British statistician.
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He went to Winchester School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded his father as professor of statistics at University College London and as editor of the journal Biometrika. Pearson is best known for development of the Neyman–Pearson lemma of statistical hypothesis testing.
He was President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1955–56, and was awarded its Guy Medal in gold in 1955. He was appointed a CBE in 1946.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1966. His candidacy citation read:
Known throughout the world as co-author of the Neyman-Pearson theory of testing statistical hypotheses, and responsible for many important contributions to problems of statistical inference and methodology, especially in the development and use of the likelihood ratio criterion. Has played a leading role in furthering the applications of statistical methods — for example, in industry, and also during and since the war, in the assessment and testing of weapons.