THEODORE M. PORTER, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. Princeton, NJ and London: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. viii+342. ISBN 0-691-11445-5. £22.95, $35.00 [Book Review]

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