Burnside’s engagement with the “modern theory of statistics”
Burnside’s engagement with the “modern theory of statistics”
The group theorist William Burnside devoted much of the last decade of his life to probability and statistics. The work led to contact with Ronald Fisher who was on his way to becoming the leading statistician of the age and with Karl Pearson, the man Fisher supplanted. Burnside corresponded with Fisher for nearly three years until their correspondence ended abruptly. This paper examines Burnside’s interactions with the statisticians and looks more generally at his work in probability and statistics.
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Aldrich, John
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January 2009
Aldrich, John
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Aldrich, John
(2009)
Burnside’s engagement with the “modern theory of statistics”.
Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 63 (1), .
(doi:10.1007/s00407-008-0036-8).
Abstract
The group theorist William Burnside devoted much of the last decade of his life to probability and statistics. The work led to contact with Ronald Fisher who was on his way to becoming the leading statistician of the age and with Karl Pearson, the man Fisher supplanted. Burnside corresponded with Fisher for nearly three years until their correspondence ended abruptly. This paper examines Burnside’s interactions with the statisticians and looks more generally at his work in probability and statistics.
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