On The Criterion That A Given System Of Deviations From The Probable In The Case Of A Correlated

by Karl Pearson

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Karl Pearson's famous chi-square paper appeared in the spring of 1900, an auspicious beginning to a wonderful century for the field of statistics. -B. Efron, The Statistical Century FIRST EDITION of one of the most important papers in the history of statistics, introducing the ‘chi-squared’ test of goodness of fit, one of the most useful of all statistical tests and one of Pearson's greatest single contributions to statistical methodology DSB .

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