Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Evolution

Pearson, K. (1894). Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 71-110.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1894

Pages

71-110

DOI

10.1098/rsta.1894.0003

DOI registrant

The Royal Society

Link

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1894.0003

Cited from

statistics_experimental_design

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Variability
  • Variability is the observable range and pattern of fluctuation in a system's properties, behaviors, or outcomes across units, conditions, or time — a quantifiable property of a collection of observations or of a process, distinct from any single observation or value

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Pearson's 1894 abstract treats variation among many specimens as a quantifiable distributional property of a collection, but does not state the definition of variability or its scope across conditions and time.

    “If measurements be made of the same part or organ in several hundred or thousand specimens of the same type or family, and a curve be constructed of which the abscissa x represents the size of the organ and the ordinate y the number of specimens falling within a definite small range δx of organ, this curve may be termed a frequency-curve.”

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Domain-specific

• Method of Moments
  • Karl Pearson’s early distribution fitting used moment equations to recover parameters, making the approach foundational in mathematical statistics.

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