Abstract As a new statistician, W.F. Sheppard wrote a series of letters to the leading statistician of the day, Karl Pearson, for his advice. Written a century ago and spanning three decades, the letters provide a glimpse into the development of two significant contributions to statistics: the normal probability tables, and the corrections of moment estimates. Sheppard's normal probability tables were the first set of modern tables for the standard normal distribution and have been widely used since the twentieth century. We provide an examination of the statistical research carried out by Sheppard and Pearson in the context of their correspondence.

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WF Sheppard 与 Karl Pearson 的通信以及他的表格和矩估计的发展

摘要 作为一名新的统计学家，WF Sheppard 写了一系列信给当时的领先统计学家 Karl Pearson，以征求他的建议。写于一个世纪前，跨越三个十年，这些信件提供了对统计学两个重要贡献的发展的一瞥：正态概率表和矩估计的更正。Sheppard 的正态概率表是标准正态分布的第一套现代表，自 20 世纪以来已被广泛使用。我们对 Sheppard 和 Pearson 在他们的通信中进行的统计研究进行了检查。