Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on Statistical Tests: A 1935 Exchange from <i>Nature</i>

Abstract

Abstract 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.