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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (born February 17, 1890, London, England—died July 29, 1962, Adelaide, Australia) was a British statistician and geneticist who pioneered the application of statistical procedures to the design of scientific experiments.
Sep 17, 2015 · Although Ronald Fisher's name is less well-known than some others, he was one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists. In addition to being probably the greatest statistician ever, he also invented experimental design and was one of the principal founders of population genetics.
Aug 6, 2019 · A short, slight mathematician with rounded spectacles, he’d been hired to help scientists there design better experiments, but he wasn’t making much headway. The station’s four o’clock tea breaks were a nice distraction. One afternoon Fisher fixed a cup for an algae biologist named Muriel Bristol.
Jan 15, 2021 · Fisher was the first to point out the fundamental distinction between a statistic and a parameter and pioneered the statistical concept of likelihood and related ideas central to any theory of ...
Sir R. A. Fisher, (born Feb. 17, 1890, East Finchley, Middlesex, Eng.—died July 29, 1962, Adelaide, S.Aus., Austl.), British statistician and geneticist. As statistician for an agricultural research institute, he investigated the linkage of genes for different traits.
Ronald Aylmer Fisher. Ronald Aylmer Fisher was born in East Finchley, London on 17 February 1890. He studied mathematics in Cambridge, graduating in 1912 with a first. His interests in both statistics and evolution developed during this time.
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