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IT is only twenty-five years since Prof. Karl Pearson gave at University College, London, his first course of lectures on the mathematical theory of statistics, and the opening at University College, London, on Friday, June 4, of the handsome building provided by the generosity of Sir Herbert Bartlett, Bart., for the Department of Applied Statistics, including the Galton Laboratory and the Drapers' Company Biometric Laboratory, marks another stage in the progress of what is more than a new branch of science, for there is scarcely a single field of scientific work in which the fundamental importance of the methods of research which have been developed by Prof. Pearson and his pupils has not been recognised.
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H., D. Applied Statistics. Nature 105, 470–471 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105470a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105470a0