R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation
Stephen E. Fienberg, DAVID V. HINKLEY · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1990
R. A. Fisher: Some Introductory Remarks.- Fisher: The Early Years.- Distribution of the Correlation Coefficient.- Fisher and the Analysis of Variance.- Randomization and Design: I.- Randomization and Design: II.- Basic Theory of the 1922 Mathematical Statistics Paper.- Fisher and the Method of Moments.- Fisher's Contributions to the Analysis of Categorical Data.- Theory of Statistical Estimation: The 1925 Paper.- Some Numerical Illustrations of Fisher's Theory of Statistical Estimation.- Fisher's Development of Conditional Inference.- Fiducial Inference.- The Behrens-Fisher and Fieller-Creasy Problems.- Fisher, Jeffreys, and the Nature of Probability.- Discriminant Analysis.- Distribution on the Sphere.- Smoking and Lung Cancer.- Appendix: Publications of R.A. Fisher.