Inspired by Francis Galton, he also produced composite photographs combining portraits of multiple people onto one plate.
His unusual first name is a tribute to his ancestor Sir Francis Galton.
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 distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton.
Pearson also refers to 'Little-Go' in Cambridge in 1842 in his biography of Francis Galton.
She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson, when Pearson was writing his biography of Francis Galton.
Francis Galton wrote The Art of Travel in 1855 and subtitled it Shifts and Contrivances available in Wild Countries.
Sheppard was encouraged to turn his mathematical skills to statistics by Francis Galton, whom he had met during his Cambridge days when he visited Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory.
Word association research started as a psychological science with Darwin's cousin, Sir Francis Galton, who thought that there might be a link between a person's I.Q. (intelligence quotient) and word associations.
Francis Bacon | Francis I of France | Francis Ford Coppola | Pope Francis | Connie Francis | Francis I | Francis Poulenc | Francis of Assisi | Francis Drake | Richard Francis Burton | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor | Francis | Francis Xavier | James Francis Edward Stuart | Francis Scott Key | St. Francis Xavier University | Francis Crick | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor | Francis Galton | Francis Toye | Francis II | Francis Fukuyama | Francis Collins | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Arlene Francis | Taylor & Francis | St. Francis | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | Francis Veber | Francis Marion |
The idea was to some extent anticipated in an 1865 article by Francis Galton, published in Macmillan's Magazine, which set out a weak version of the concept.
Their thoughts concerning the role of discontinuity in evolution drew on earlier ideas of William Keith Brooks, Francis Galton, and Thomas Henry Huxley.
During the course of his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of Destry-Scholes' unpublished research about real historical figures Carl Linnaeus, Francis Galton and Henrik Ibsen.
His findings led him to oppose contemporary Darwinists, most notably Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, who held the occurrence of normal distributed trait variation in populations as proof of gradual genetic variation on which selection could act.