Mathematician:Egon Sharpe Pearson

Mathematician

English statistician best known for development of the Neyman-Pearson lemma of statistical hypothesis testing.

The son of Karl Pearson.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 11 August 1895 in Hampstead, London, England
• Died: 12 June 1980 in Midhurst, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Neyman-Pearson Lemma (with Jerzy Neyman)

Results named for Egon Sharpe Pearson can be found here.

Publications

• 1928: On the Use and Interpretation of certain Test Criteria for the Purposes of Statistical Inference: Part $\text I$ (Biometrika Vol. 20A, no. 1/2: pp. 175 – 240) (with Jerzy Neyman)  www.jstor.org/stable/2331945
• 1928: On the Use and Interpretation of certain Test Criteria for the Purposes of Statistical Inference: Part $\text {II}$ (Biometrika Vol. 20A, no. 3/4: pp. 263 – 294) (with Jerzy Neyman)  www.jstor.org/stable/2332112
• 1930: On the problem of two samples (with Jerzy Neyman)
• 1933: On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses (with Jerzy Neyman)
• 1933: The testing of statistical hypotheses in relation to probabilities a priori (with Jerzy Neyman)
• 1935: The Application of Statistical Methods to Industrial Standardisation and Quality Control
• 1938: Karl Pearson : an appreciation of some aspects of his life and work

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Egon Sharpe Pearson": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive