Statistical Innovation and its Applications The Enduring Impact of Ronald Fisher

Ronald Aylmer Fisher was born in North London in 1890. His father built Inverforth House, and the family lived here from when Ronald was 6 years old until ... The great statistician was also a racist who believed in the sterilisation of those he considered inferior. Ronald Fisher, 1890 – 1962. Geneticist and Statistician. In 1911, still an undergraduate, Fisher formed Cambridge University's Eugenics Society. British statistician and geneticist. As statistician for an agricultural research institute, he investigated the linkage of genes for different traits. 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. Ronald A. Fisher, father of modern statistics, enjoying his pipe. ***. In the summer of 1957, Ronald Fisher, one of the fathers of modern ... 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 ... R. A. Fisher was the greatest statistician of his time, perhaps of all time. He was one of the great trio that included himself, Sewall Wright, and J. B. S. ... Fisher invented the techniques of maximum likelihood and analysis of variance, was a pioneer in the design of experiments, and originated the concepts of ... Ronald A. Fisher ... Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist. Among other things, Fisher is well ...