The Statistical Godfather Exploring Ronald Fisher's Legacy

Ronald Fisher died aged 72 on July 29, 1962, in Adelaide, Australia following an operation for colon cancer. Ronald Fisher was cremated and his ashes interred ... Ronald Fisher's contributions to statistics. In his 1930 book, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Fisher proposed a mechanism to explain how a human civilization of any ethnicity ... He introduced the efficient Latin Square design for agricultural experiments, illustrated analysis of variance with field experiment results, ... During his undergraduate days, Ronald Fisher was deeply interested in evolutionary biology and Eugenics. He was in favour of positive Eugenics ... 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 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 ... Amazon.com: R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist (Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics): 9780471093008: Box, Joan Fisher: Books. The great statistician was also a racist who believed in the sterilisation of those he considered inferior. Fisher liked his Millionaire calculating machine and was disdainful of the up-to-date desk calculators which were in plentiful supply by the mid-1930s.