  Karl Pearson played an enormous role in determining the content and
organization of statistical research in his day, through his research, his
teaching, his establishment of laboratories, and his initiation of a vast
publishing program. His technical contributions had initially and continue
today to have a profound impact upon the work of both applied and theoretical
statisticians, partly through their inadequately acknowledged influence upon
Ronald A. Fisher. Particular attention is drawn to two of Pearson's major
errors that nonetheless have left a positive and lasting impression upon the
statistical world.
