| RefNo | RR/13/249 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by Percy Alexander MacMahon, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.— IV. On the probable errors of frequency constants and on the influence of random selection on variation and correlation' by Karl Pearson and Louis Napoleon George Filon |
| Date | 9 December 1897 |
| Description | Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The subject has been developed 'with great ability' and a work of this merit has not been published since the time of Gauss. The paper should be revised before publication.
Subject: Mathematics
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1898]. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Report on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1898.0007 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/13/248 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6982 | MacMahon; Percy Alexander (1854 - 1929); mathematician | 1854 - 1929 |
| NA8002 | Pearson; Karl (1857 - 1936); statistician and eugenicist | 1857 - 1936 |
| NA1233 | Filon; Louis Napoleon George (1875 - 1937); mathematical physicist and university administrator | 1875 - 1937 |