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Lecture: June 6, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Assoc. Prof. of Mathematics, PhD Jemma Lorenat<\/strong>
Pitzer College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The evolution of statistical workers at the turn of the twentieth century<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some time around the turn of the twentieth century mathematical statistics became a discipline with recognized techniques, institutions, and training centered at Karl Pearson\u2019s laboratory in London. My talk concentrates on this period of crystallization in the contrasting professional trajectories and contributions of Alice Lee and Charles Davenport. Lee was one of the two students who attended Pearson\u2019s first lectures on frequency curve fitting and correlation in the 1890s. She soon began gathering and analyzing data on projects ranging from anthropometry to barometric pressure to Hertzian oscillation. In 1899 she earned a doctorate in \u201cEmployment of the Theory of Correlation on Biological and Other Investigations\u201d from University College London. Over this same period, Davenport endeavored to import the new British tools for American biologists. He taught statistical research to prospective zoologists at Harvard and the University of Chicago, published a textbook, and successfully lobbied the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund a biometric station in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. When Pearson and W. F. R. Weldon founded the journal Biometrika<\/em> in 1901, Davenport featured on the editorial board. These complementary trajectories shifted in the following decade. If Lee and Davenport appear in histories of statistics, they are lesser satellites of Pearson \u2014 the former a diligent computer, the latter an antagonistic Mendelian. Following Lee and Davenport between their nineteenth and twentieth century situations uncovers modes of statistical work that disappeared with disciplinization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, 8 June 2026, 2.15\u20134 pm (14.15\u201316)
Auditorium 1 at H. C. \u00d8rsted Institute,
Universitetsparken 5, Copenhagen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 1.15 p.m. (13.15), the general assembly<\/strong> will take place with coffee, cookies, tea, and fruit in room 04.4.20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the lecture there will be an invitation to dinner with the lecturer at own expense.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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