Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (* 17 February 1890 in London, England; "† 29 July 1962 in Adelaide, Australia) was one the most important Genetiker, evolution theoretician and statistician 20. Century. The British biologist Richard Dawkins calls it "„The greatest OF Darwin' s successors "“, and historians of the statistics. Differently Hald writes "„to Fisher which A genius who almost single handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science. "“

Contributions to the statistics

R.A. Fisher introduced the maximum Likelihood principle and the statistic procedure of the analysis of variance (ANOVA, analysis OF variance), it supplied important contributions for statistic experimental design and postulated the estimate-theoretical concepts of the Suffizienz, Ancillary statistics and Fisher information this made it one of the most important statisticians 20. Jahrhundertes.

Its article "“on A distribution yielding the error functions OF several wave known statistics"” presents Karl Pearson's - distribution and Student's t-distribution within the same probabilistic framework as Normalverteilungund the f (Fisher), designated after it, distribution. Fisher's book Statistical methods for research workers describes like these distributions to be used can.

With The use OF multiple measurements in taxonomic problem (1936) it introduced the Diskriminanzanalyse.

Kurzbiographie

Ronald Fisher was born in London and made in the year 1912 to Cambridge University a B.A. - Conclusion in mathematics its work across the errors in astronomical computations as well as its interest in the genetics led to its work in the statistics.

Starting from 1919 he worked on the Rothamsted experimental station. In the year 1933 he became a professor for Eugenik at the University college London, and from there he went 1943 at the Balfour chair for genetics into Cambridge.

It received numerous honors for its work and to 1952 by queen Elizabeth II. to the knight was struck. Already in the retirement he spent some time in Adelaide, Australia, where he deceased to 1962.

Bibliography

Selection from its 395 articles

• Frequency distribution OF the VALUEs OF the correlation coefficient into samples from on indefinitely large population. Biometrika '', 10:507 - 521. 1915
• The correlation between relative on the supposition OF Mendelian inheritance, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. "“, 52"”: 399-433, 1918. In this article the term variance is inserted for the first time into the statistics and probability theory.
• On the mathematical foundations OF theoretical statistics, Philosophical Transactions OF the Royal Society, A, 222:309 - 368. (1922)
• On the dominance ratio, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb., 42 ': 321-341. 1922
• On A distribution yielding the error functions OF several wave known statistics, Proc. Int. Cong. Math., Toronto, 2:805 - 813. 1924
• Theory OF statistical estimation, Proceedings OF the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 22:700 - 725 1925
• Applications OF Student's distribution, Metron, 5:90 - 104 1925
• The arrangement OF field experiment, J. Min. Agric. G. Break, 33:503 - 513. 1926
• The general sampling distribution OF the multiple correlation coefficient, Proceedings OF Royal Society, A, 121:654 - 673 1928
• Two new properties OF mathematical likelihood, Proceedings OF Royal Society, A, 144:285 - 307 1934
• The use OF multiple measurements in taxonomic problem (in Annals OF Eugenics) 7/1936

Books by R.A. Fisher

• Statistical methods for research workers (1925)
• The Genetical Theory OF Natural Selection (1930)
• The Design OF of experiment (1935)
• Statistical of tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (1938, with franc Yates)
• The theory OF inbreeding (1949)
• Contributions ton mathematical statistics (1950)
• Statistical methods and statistical inference (1956)

Biographies over R.A. Fisher

• Fisher box J.R.A. Fisher: The Life OF A Scientist, 1978 New York, Wiley.
• Yates F., Mather K.: Ronald Aylmer Fisher. Biographical note IR OF Fellows OF the Royal Society OF London, 1963, 9:91 - 120

Related links

• Biography RK MacTutor
• A Guide ton of R.A. Fisher by John Aldrich
• Earliest Known Uses OF Some OF the Words OF Mathematics
• University OF Adelaide LIBRARY for bibliography, biography, 2 volumes OF correspondence and many articles
• Classics into the History OF Psychology for the roofridge edition OF '' Statistical Methods for Research Workers ''
• A collection OF Fisher quotations compiled by A.W.F. Edwards

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