| Description | Offprint of Karl Pearson, "On the Criterion that a given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated System of Variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen from Random Sampling, "Philosophical Magazine" (July 1900), pp. 158-75.
This paper on the chi-squared test, frequency distribution and statistical significance is considered to be one of the foundations of modern statistics.
Enclosed are Pearson's manuscript notes on generalised probable error; 5 ff. |