Pearson

Pearson is a common English surname, most notably associated with Karl Pearson, the statistician who developed the Pearson correlation coefficient—a measure of the linear relationship between two variables.

The name also belongs to Pearson PLC, a major British multinational publishing and education company.

In everyday contexts, you're likely to encounter Pearson as someone's last name or in reference to educational materials and textbooks.

The Pearson correlation showed a strong positive relationship between the variables.