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  <dc:title>Sheppard, William Fleetwood</dc:title>
  <dc: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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1896-1926</dc:date>
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