Mathematician:Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Mathematician
English statistician, evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and eugenicist.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 17 February 1890 in London, England
 * Died: 29 July 1962 in Adelaide, Australia

Theorems and Definitions

 * Fisher Information
 * Fisher Matrix
 * Fisher-Kolmogorov Equation (with )
 * Fisher's Exact Test
 * Fisher's Linear Discriminant
 * Fisher's Geometric Model
 * Fisher's Inequality
 * Fisher's Iris
 * Fisher's Method for combining Independent Tests of Significance
 * Fisher's Permutation Test
 * Fisher's Z-Distribution
 * Fisher Kernel
 * Fisherian Runaway
 * Fisher-Bingham Distribution (with )
 * Fisher-Tippett Distribution (with )
 * Fisher-Yates Shuffle (with )
 * Behrens-Fisher Problem (with )
 * Von Mises-Fisher Distribution (with )

Publications

 * 1925: Statistical Methods for Research Workers
 * 1930: The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
 * 1935: The Design of Experiments
 * 1936: The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems
 * 1938: Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (with )
 * 1949: The theory of inbreeding
 * 1950: Contributions to mathematical statistics
 * 1956 Statistical methods and scientific inference