Mathematician:Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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Mathematician

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

Pioneered the technique of analysis of variance.


Nationality

English


History

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


Theorems and Definitions

the Fisher-Irwin Test (with Joseph Oscar Irwin)
the Fisher-Yates Test (with Frank Yates)

Results named for Ronald Aylmer Fisher can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ronald Aylmer Fisher can be found here.


Publications

  • 1938: Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (with Frank Yates)
    • 1963: Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (6th edition) (with Frank Yates)
  • 1949: The theory of inbreeding
  • 1950: Contributions to mathematical statistics
  • 1956: Statistical methods and scientific inference


Sources