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Debate revisits Pearson's 1904 rejection of Yule's critique
Original: If one can understand that in 1904 Pearson didn't drop the dominance assumption (although Yule had proposed to do it as
A discussion in the history-of-statistics community is examining Karl Pearson's 1904 work, arguing that he refused to drop the dominance assumption in genetics even though Udny Yule had proposed abandoning it as early as 1902 and Pearson was aware of this. The writer suggests that dismissive remarks on the paper's second page were aimed at Yule, and questions Pearson's subsequent reasoning on the matter.
Why now: Historians of statistics are debating Pearson's treatment of Yule's ideas in his 1904 paper on the genetics of dominance.
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- If one can understand that in 1904 Pearson didn't drop the dominance assumption (although Yule had proposed to do it as soon as 1902, and he knew it — I suspect the disdainful comments on the second page are directed to him), it is hard to understand why he considered that the… · HydrePrever@mathstodon.xyz · 3
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