The American Statistician, February 1st, 1994
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.
KEY WORDS: Goodness-of-fit test; History of statistics; Philosophy of scientific inference.
1. INTRODUCTION
In 1935 Karl Pearson (1857-1936) and R. A. Fisher (1890-1962) exchanged letters in Nature on testing statistical hypotheses. Compared with their other disagreements, public and p...
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