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  1. Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS [5] (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.

    • 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 statistics by 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".

  2. 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.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. In the design of experiments in statistics, the lady tasting tea is a randomized experiment devised by Ronald Fisher and reported in his book The Design of Experiments (1935). [1] The experiment is the original exposition of Fisher's notion of a null hypothesis , which is "never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of ...

  4. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection is a book by Ronald Fisher which combines Mendelian genetics with Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, [1] with Fisher being the first to argue that "Mendelism therefore validates Darwinism" [2] and stating with regard to mutations that "The vast majority of large mutations are deleterious ...

    • Ronald Aylmer Fisher
    • 1930
  5. Ronald Fisher. Statistical Methods for Research Workers is a classic book on statistics, written by the statistician R. A. Fisher. It is considered by some [who?] to be one of the 20th century's most influential books on statistical methods, together with his The Design of Experiments (1935).

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  7. The Sir Ronald Fisher window was removed in 2020 because of Fisher's connection with eugenics. [1] 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.