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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July...
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- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
- Statistical Methods For Research Workers
- Design of Experiments
His book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection was started in 1928 and published in 1930, with a second edition in 1950. He developed ideas on sexual selection, mimicry and the evolution of dominance. He showed that the probability of a mutation increasing the fitness of an organism decreases proportionately with the magnitude of the mutation. ...
Statistical Methods for Research Workers (ISBN 0-05-002170-2) is a classic 1925 book on statisticsby Fisher. It is one of the 20th century's most influential books on statistical methods. According to Conniffe,
Fisher's Design of Experiments(1935) was "also fundamental, [and promoted] statistical technique and application... The mathematical justification of the methods was not stressed and proofs were often barely sketched or omitted altogether .... [This] led H.B. Mann to fill the gaps with a rigorous mathematical treatment in his treatise".
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (born February 17, 1890, London, England—died July 29, 1962, Adelaide, Australia) was a British statistician and geneticist who pioneered the application of statistical procedures to the design of scientific experiments.
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The Iris flower data set or Fisher's Iris data set is a multivariate data set used and made famous by the British statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher in his 1936 paper The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems as an example of linear discriminant analysis.
The Sir Ronald Fisher window was removed in 2020 because of Fisher's connection with eugenics. The Design of Experiments is a 1935 book by the English statistician Ronald Fisher about the design of experiments and is considered a foundational work in experimental design.
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (February 17, 1890 – July 29, 1962) was a British statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist.
