ME Magnello, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002449
1860–1906 English evolutionary zoologist and biometrican whose collaboration with Karl Pearson greatly influenced the latter to develop the modern theory of mathematical statistics.
Keywords: zoologist; evolutionary biology; mathematical statistics; Karl Pearson
| Further Reading | |
| book Bourne G (1906) "Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860–1906)". Dictionary of National Biography, pp. 629–630. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Cowan RS (1976) "Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860–1906)" In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 14, pp. 251–252. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| other Magnello ME (1993) Karl Pearson: Evolutionary Biology and the Emergence of a Modern Theory of Statistics. DPhil thesis, University of Oxford. | |
| Magnello ME (1996) Karl Pearson's Gresham Lectures: W.F.R. Weldon, speciation and the origins of Pearsonian statistics. British Journal for the History of Science 29: 43–64. | |
| Magnello ME (1998) Karl Pearson's mathematisation of inheritance. From Galton's ancestral heredity to Mendelian genetics (1895–1909). Annals of Science 55: 35–94. | |
| Magnello ME (1999) The non-correlation of biometrics and eugenics: Rival forms of laboratory work in Karl Pearson's career at University College London. Part 1, History of Science 37(March), 79–106; Part 2, History of Science 37 (June), 123–150. | |
| book Magnello ME (1999) "W.F.R. Weldon". In: Kotz S and Johnson N (eds) Encylopedia of Statistical Science (Update). New York: John Wiley. | |
| book Pearson K (1906) "Walter Frank Raphael Weldon". 1860–1906. Biometrika 5: 1–52. (Also reprinted in Pearson ES and Kendall M (1970) Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, vol. 1. London: Charles Griffin & Co.) | |
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