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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.
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Sep 17, 2015 · Learn about the life and achievements of Ronald Fisher, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. He invented experimental design, population genetics, and statistical methods for research workers.
Jan 15, 2021 · R.A. Fisher was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century (Fig. 1 ). He was a man of extraordinary ability and originality whose scientific contributions ranged over a very wide area of...
- Walter Bodmer, R. A. Bailey, Brian Charlesworth, Adam Eyre-Walker, Vernon Farewell, Andrew Mead, Ste...
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Articles 1–20. Statistics, Cambridge, University College London - Cited by 224,377 - statistics - genetics - evolutionary biology.
Learn about the life and achievements of Ronald Aylmer Fisher, a pioneer of statistics and genetics. He developed the foundations of modern statistical inference, experimental design, and population genetics, and was a controversial advocate of eugenics.
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.
