| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | PEARSON/2/1/8/1 |
| Title | Griffith, Leopold T to Karl and Egon Pearson |
| Date | Oct 1892 |
| Date2 | Oct 1937-Feb 1938 |
| Description | <p>October 1892. Letters from L Griffith to Karl Pearson regarding probability tests and coin tosses. Griffith informs Pearson that he has been conducting probability tests by recording coin tosses, and that he would be willing to send Pearson the data. Griffith's second letter discusses peculiarities in the data.</p>
<p>October 1937 to February 1938. Griffith's letters to Egon Pearson, regarding his experiments with coin tossing, data from which was used by Karl Pearson in his Gresham College lectures. Griffiths discusses experiments in probability and the effects of persistance, and encloses a copy of his report "Experiments in Probability - 50,400 trials". Carbon copies of Egon Pearson's replies are attached; Pearson believes that Griffith's data could illustrate how observational data conforms with theory.</p> |
| Extent | 7 letters plus 2 enclosures |
| 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. |
| Related Material | PEARSON/2/1/8/2 and PEARSON/2/1/8/3 |