A Guide to
Sir Ronald Fisher F.
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“perhaps
the most original mathematical scientist of the [twentieth] century”
Bradley
Efron Annals of Statistics
(1976)
“Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science ….”
Anders
Hald A History of Mathematical Statistics (1998)
“Sir Ronald Fisher …
could be regarded as
“I occasionally meet geneticists who ask me
whether it is true that the great geneticist
Leonard J. Savage Annals of Statistics (1976)
“[Kolmogorov]
referred to The genetical
theory of natural selection—‘das wundervolle Buch von
David Kendall Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (1990).
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Keywords and names:
analysis of variance, conditional inference, design of experiments, estimation,
eugenics, fundamental theorem of natural selection, likelihood, maximum
likelihood, modern synthesis, population genetics, significance tests, t-distribution; z-distribution, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Leonard Darwin, W. S. Gosset
(“Student”), Harold Jeffreys, Jerzy Neyman, Karl Pearson, Sewall Wright.
Thanks chiefly to A. W. F. Edwards for
providing most of the references, to J. W. “Mac” McDonald, Clive
Dewey and Duncan Harris for additional suggestions and to Susan Woodburn for
general help on Fisher matters and for commenting on the website.
John Aldrich, University of Southampton,
Southampton, UK. (home) First version May 2003. Most recent changes May 2019.