Joint meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, the British Society for the History of Mathematics & the British Society for the History of Science
At the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX
Friday 23 March 2007
10.30am-5.30pm
(Registration from 10am)
Karl Pearson sesquicentenary conference
A one day conference to celebrate the 150th birthday of the Victorian mathematician, Karl Pearson (1857-1936) who established the discipline of mathematical statistics.
Welcome and opening address:
Andy Grieve (King's College, London)
Karl Pearson: The making of a statistician in Victorian London
Eileen Magnello (University College London)
Inheriting Galton's statistics: George Darwin, Edgeworth and Weldon
Chris Pritchard (McLaren High School, .Callander, Scotland)
"Anti-aircraft guns all day long": Computing for the Ministry of Munitions
June Barrow Green (Open University)
The enigma of Karl Pearson and Bayesian inference
John Aldrich (Southampton University)
Pearson's impact upon statistics
Stephen Stigler (University of Chicago)
How much did Pearson's work influence Fisher's?
A.W.F. Edwards (Caius College, Cambridge)
Followed by panel discussion
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Conference fees include lunch and refreshments:
* £25 Student and Retired Fellows*
* £35 for CStats/GradStats
* £40 for RSS Fellows/BSHM and BSHS members
* £50 for Non-Fellows
* also Student, Retired and Unwaged BSHM/BSHS members
Paul Gentry
Theme Manager, Meetings & Conferences
Royal Statistical Society
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