Essay on Cumulants of Fisher's Scores in Estimation of Linkage

Handwritten copy of essay titled "The Cumulants of the Distributions of Fisher's u11 and u31 Scores Used in the Detection and Estimation of Linkage in Man". Also contains handwritten calculations, and offprints of "The Cumulants and Moments of the Binomial Distribution, and the Cumulants of x2 for a (n x 2)-Fold Table", published in Biometrika, 1939, and "The Cumulants of the Distribution of the Square of a Variate", published in Biometrika, 1941, referenced by J B S Haldane in the essay.

c.1946

44 sheets

Typewritten copy of this essay can be found at HALDANE/1/2/65

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.