Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on Statistical Tests: A 1935 Exchange fromNature
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 48 (1) , 2-11
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1994.10476010
Abstract
In 1935, a letter to Nature criticizing the logic of statistical tests provoked published responses from Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher. Their letters illustrate the attitudes of the two men toward the hypothesis-testing problem soon after the Neyman-Pearson formulation and shortly before Karl Pearson's death.Keywords
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