See Also: Pearson PLC(finance)
Pearson(finance)
Pearson(dictionary)
Pearson, Karl(medicine)
Pearson, Drew(encyclopedia)
Poisson-Pearson formula(medicine)
Pearson, Lester B(owles)(encyclopedia)
McArdle-Schmid-Pearson disease(medicine)
Neyman-Pearson statistical hypothesis(medicine)

geranial (iou) and Pearson (iou)


geranial (iou)



geranial noun. L19.
[formed as GERANIOL + -AL2.]
Chemistry. The trans isomer of citral, a fragrant oil present in lemon-grass oil and used in perfumery.

Pearson (iou)



Pearson noun. E20.
[Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English mathematician.]
Statistics. Used attrib. and in possess. with ref. to various statistical formulae and techniques devised or described by Pearson, esp. (a) members of a family of curves including many probability distribution functions; (b) a measure of the skewness of statistical distributions; (c) the product-moment correlation coefficient; (d) the chi-square test; (e) a set of formulae used to estimate human stature from the length of limb bones.
Pear'sonian adjective of or originated by Karl Pearson E20.