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"The significance of Fisher: A review of R. A. Fisher. The Life of a Scientist, by Joan Fisher Box". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75 (372): 1019– 1030. doi:10.2307/2287199. JSTOR 2287199. Salsburg, David (2002). The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century. Henry Holt and Company.
According to Denis Conniffe: Ronald A. Fisher was "interested in application and in the popularization of statistical methods and his early book Statistical Methods for Research Workers, published in 1925, went through many editions and motivated and influenced the practical use of statistics in many fields of study.
The Ronald Fisher bibliography contains the works published by the English statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher (1890–1962). ... (PDF). Journal of ...
Fisher, Ronald: English: 1890: 1962: Wrote the textbooks and articles that defined the academic discipline of statistics, inspiring the creation of statistics departments at universities throughout the world. Systematized previous results with informative terminology, substantially improving previous results with mathematical analysis (and claims).
Scatterplot of the data set. 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. [1]
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Two other series of lectures are also named after R. A. Fisher: The Fisher Memorial Lecture on an application of mathematics to biology, usually given in the UK, first given in 1964; The Sir Ronald Fisher Lecture on genetics, evolutionary biology or statistics, given at the University of Adelaide, Australia, first given in 1990
Fisher's exact test is a statistical significance test used in the analysis of contingency tables. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Although in practice it is employed when sample sizes are small, it is valid for all sample sizes.