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PEARSON - Karl Pearson Papers
3 - Literary and Scientific Work
14 - Papers on Various Statistical Problems, "Tables of the Gamma Function", and "Tables of the Beta Function"
11 - Papers Relating to "On the Determination of Skew Frequency Curves from Data Giving a Portion of the Distribution Only"
StorageSite
UCL Special Collections
Level
Item
Reference Number
PEARSON/3/14/11/2
Title
Epidemic Calculations by Karl Pearson
Date
1920s
Date2
1973
Description
Consists of calculations relating to deaths from epidemics. Note by Egon Pearson dated 23 Mar 1973 stating that Karl Pearson was hoping to be able to fit a curve to the earlier weekly death frequencies and so predict when an epidemic should subside and disappear. "As far as I can remember all efforts were unsuccessful".
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1 bundle
AccessStatus
Open
AccessConditions
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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