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| Born | Egon Sharpe Pearson 11 August 1895 |
| Died | 12 June 1980 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Neyman–Pearson lemma |
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| Awards | Weldon Memorial Prize (1935) Guy Medal (Gold, 1955) |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Doctoral students | George E. P. Box Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh Pao-Lu Hsu Norman Lloyd Johnson |
Egon Sharpe Pearson CBE FRS[1] (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a British statistician.[2][3]
- ^ Bartlett, M. S. (1981). "Egon Sharpe Pearson. 11 August 1895-12 June 1980". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27: 425–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0017. JSTOR 769879.
- ^ Egon Pearson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Egon Pearson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews