Egon Pearson

Egon Pearson
Born
Egon Sharpe Pearson

11 August 1895
Died12 June 1980 (1980-06-13) (aged 84)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forNeyman–Pearson lemma
Frequentist statistics
Type I and type II errors
Spouses
  • Dorothy Eileen Jolly
  • Margaret Theodisia Scott
Children
  • Judith Pearson
  • Sarah Pearson
Parents
AwardsWeldon Memorial Prize (1935)
Guy Medal (Gold, 1955)
FRS (1966)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Doctoral studentsGeorge E. P. Box
Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh
Pao-Lu Hsu
Norman Lloyd Johnson

Egon Sharpe Pearson CBE FRS (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a British statistician.