A musician told me he was going to hit me with the neck of his guitar.
I replied, “Is that a fret?”
Udny YuleDied 26 Jun 1951 at age 80 (born 18 Feb 1871). George Udny Yule was a Scottish statistician who, with Karl Pearson, studied the statistics of regression and correlation, especially as applied in 2x2 contingency tables, time series, Mendelian genetics and epidemiology. His name is remembered in the Yule distribution (a discrete power law). Yule’s first paper on statistics, On the Correlation of Total Pauperism with Proportion of Out-relief (1895) reflects his early interest in statistics applied to social problems. As one of the pioneers of modern statistics, he laid a foundation on which others later built further. Yule also made some pioneer statements concerning mental tests, how to reduce the error of measurement and thereby improve validity. Developed from his prior series of lectures, he wrote a widely-used textbook,Introduction to Statistics (1911), which went through 14 editions.« |
