| Description | <p>Letters to Pearson from Francis Edgeworth.</p>
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<p>Folder 1, letters 1891-1895, regarding: papers contributed to the <i>Economic Journal</i>; political economy, and Pearson's socialist perspective on the subject; mathematics applied to biological problems and political economy; skew distributions; probability; Pearson's papers on roulette; frequency deviations; graphical methods in statistics; the law of error; correlation coefficients; composite curves; curve fitting; his disagreements with Pearson; plus enclosed manuscript notes "on proof of law of error", November 1895.</p>
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<p>Folder 2, letters 1896-1925, regarding: curve fitting; frequency and distribution curves; Pareto; the law of error; correlation coefficients; probability; goodness of fit; chi square formulations; and his disagreements with Pearson. </p>
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<p>The following drafts, proofs and offprints are enclosed:</p>
<li>Edgeworth, "The Mathematical Representation of Statistics", <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society</i>, Section A, (1898).</li>
<li>"Summary of Professor F Y Edgeworth's Paper on the Use of Curves in Statistics", <i>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society</i>, (September 1899).</li>
<li>Edgeworth, "On the Representation of Statistics by Mathematical Formulae", <i>Journal of the Mathematical Society</i>, (March 1900).</li>
<li>Edgeworth, "On A Method of Representing Statistics of Frequency by Analytic Geometry (Summary)", <i>Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge</i>, (1912).</li>
<li>Edgeworth, "On the Probable Errors of Frequency-Constants", <i>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society</i>, (September 1908).</li>
<li>Manuscript draft papers and notes on least squares, probable error of frequency distributions, the currency question; and draft examination papers.</li> |