On Rereading R. A. Fisher
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R. A. Fisher: an appreciation.
Fisher’s name has appeared repeatedly in Perspectives, two of which have been devoted primarily to him (Crow 1988, 1990). Fisher’s collected papers are a gold mine, for Fisher often put down his most profound and original ideas in ‘‘throw-away’’ articles, which were published in a five-volume set edited by Henry Bennett (Fisher 1971– 1974). Fisher’s great book (1930) has been reissued in a vari...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Statistics
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0090-5364
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176343456