Francis Galton

Francis Galton
noun
English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)
Syn: ↑Galton, ↑Sir Francis Galton
Instance Hypernyms: ↑scientist

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  • Sir Francis Galton — noun English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822 1911) • Syn: ↑Galton …   Useful english dictionary

  • GALTON (F.) — GALTON sir FRANCIS (1822 1911) Gentilhomme anglais, voyageur et explorateur (Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa , 1853), savant qui s’intéressa de façon brillante aux disciplines les plus diverses, sir Francis Galton a surtout… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Galton's problem — Galton’s problem, named after Sir Francis Galton, is the problem of drawing inferences from cross cultural data, due to the statistical phenomenon now called autocorrelation. The problem is now recognized as a general one that applies to all… …   Wikipedia

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  • Galton — ist der Nachname mehrerer Personen: Samuel John Galton (1753–1832), britischer Unternehmer und Bankier Francis Galton (1822–1911), britischer Naturforscher und Schriftsteller, Enkel von Samuel John Galton Compton Theodore Galton (1855 1931),… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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