Karl Pearson

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Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English biometrican and statistician, was a student of Francis Galton and Professor of Eugenics (later genetics) at the University of London. He invented the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficent (or simply the "correlation coefficent"), as well as the chi-square goodness-of-fit statistic, which helped inaugurate a long and successful history of biometric and statistical studies generally.