The Statistical Titan Ronald A. Fisher's Enduring Impact

Ronald Fisher received a BA in astronomy from Cambridge in 1912. There he studied the theory of errors under Stratton using Airy's manual Theory of Errors. Organised by John Aldrich on behalf of the History of Statistics Section In 1919 the agricultural station at Rothamsted recruited Ronald ... Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was a British polymath, mathematician, statistician, geneticist, and academic. In his 1930 book, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Fisher proposed a mechanism to explain how a human civilization of any ethnicity ... Ronald Fisher ... Sir Ronald Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. He was the father-in-law of ... He developed ideas on sexual selection, mimicry and the evolution of dominance. He famously showed that chance of a mutation increasing the fitness of an ... Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist. Ronald A. Fisher was born on February 17, 1890 in East Finchley, London England to George and Katie Fisher. Fisher had a happy child hood with his 3 sisters ... Ronald Aylmer Fisher. 1890-1962. English statistician and geneticist considered one of the founders of modern statistics. Fisher introduced the analysis of ... In it, Fisher argued that mating was primarily controlled by social class “and defectives undoubtedly gravitate to the lowest social stratum.” ...