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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	PEARSON/11/1/18/77
Title	Sheppard, William Fleetwood
Date	1896-1926
Description	Manuscript. About sending his paper on the normal curve to K Pearson to seek advice on its suitability for the Royal Society; willingness to take on coaching work; Karl's method of curve-fitting; quadrature formulae; accounting for probability of error in curve-fitting; possibility of writing an article on interpolation formulae for surfaces for Biometrika; Karl's declining invitation to write on mathematical statistics for the Encyclopaedia Britannica; tables for statisticians; etiqutte on using past university exam papers in publications; offer to write exam questions and family news; and logarithmic tables.
Extent	23 letters
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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