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Ronald Fisher as a child Fisher in his graduation ceremony at Cambridge University. The Ronald Fisher bibliography contains the works published by the English statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher (1890–1962).
Fisher held strong views on race and eugenics, insisting on racial differences. Although he was clearly a eugenicist, there is some debate as to whether Fisher supported scientific racism (see Ronald Fisher § Views on race). He was the Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London and editor of the Annals of Eugenics. [35]
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).
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. [2] [3] [4] Among other contributions, the book introduced the concept of the null hypothesis in the context of the lady tasting tea experiment. [5]
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; small mutations are both far more frequent and more ...
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 ...
Joan Box, Fisher's biographer and daughter states in her 1978 book, The Life of a Scientist [4] that Fisher, then a student, had resolved this problem in 1911. Fisher had originally submitted his paper (then entitled "The correlation to be expected between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance") to the Royal Society of London ...
Fisher's principle was outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection [2] (but has been incorrectly attributed as original to Fisher [1]). Fisher couched his argument in terms of parental expenditure , and predicted that parental expenditure on both sexes should be equal.