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Karl Pearson in Russian Contexts

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The confluence of statistics and probability into mathematical statistics in the Russian Empire through the interaction, 1910–1917, of A.A. Chuprov and A.A. Markov was influenced by the writings of the English Biometric School, especially those of Karl Pearson. The appearance of the Russian‐language exposition of Pearsonian ideas by E. E. Slutsky in 1912 was instrumental in this confluence. Slutsky's predecessors in such writings (Lakhtin, Orzhentskii, and Leontovich) were variously of mathematical, political economy, and biological backgrounds. Work emanating from the interpolational nature of Pearson's system of frequency curves was continued subsequently through the work of Markov, Bernstein, Romanovsky, and Kravchuk (Krawtchouk), who laid a solid probabilistic foundation. The correlational nature in the interpolational early work of Chebyshev, and work of the English Biometric School in the guise of linear least‐squares fitting exposited as the main component of Slutsky's book, was developed in population as well as sample context by Chuprov. He also championed the expectation operation in providing exact relations between sample and population moments, in direct interaction with Karl Pearson. Romanovsky emerges as the most adaptive and modern mathematical statistician.

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  • Eugene Seneta, 2009. "Karl Pearson in Russian Contexts," International Statistical Review, International Statistical Institute, vol. 77(1), pages 118-146, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:istatr:v:77:y:2009:i:1:p:118-146
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2009.00071.x
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