Abstract
This paper considers the language devised by Karl Pearson and his associates for discussing distributions, populations and samples, the basic language for frequentist inference. The original language-some of which is still in use-is described and also the changes it underwent under the influence of R.A. Fisher and of Russian and American mathematicians. The period covered is roughly 1890-1950.
Citation
John Aldrich. "The Language of the English Biometric School." Internat. Statist. Rev. 71 (1) 109 - 129, April 2003.
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