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Yule ’ s first paper on statistics appeared in 1895: " On the Correlation of Total Pauperism with Proportion of Out-relief ".

Yule was interested in applying statistical techniques to social problems and he quickly became a member of the Royal Statistical Society.

For many years the only members interested in mathematical statistics were Yule, Edgeworth and Bowley.

In 1897 – 99 Yule wrote important papers on correlation and regression ); after 1900 he worked on a parallel theory of association.

His approach to association was quite different from Pearson ’ s and relations between them deteriorated.

Yule had broad interests and his collaborators included the agricultural meteorologist R. H. Hooker, the medical statistician Major Greenwood and the agricultural scientist Sir Frank Engledow.

Yule ’ s sympathy towards the newly rediscovered Mendelian theory of genetics led to several papers.