R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. R.A. Fisher: Some Introductory Remarks

   • David Hinkley

   Pages 1-5

3. Fisher: The Early Years

   • Joan Fisher Box

   Pages 6-8

4. Distribution of the Correlation Coefficient

   • Somesh Das Gupta

   Pages 9-16

5. Fisher and the Analysis of Variance

   • William G. Cochran

   Pages 17-34

6. Randomization and Design: I

   • Norton Holschuh

   Pages 35-45

7. Randomization and Design: II

   • Rick Picard

   Pages 46-58

8. Basic Theory of the 1922 Mathematical Statistics Paper

   • Seymour Geisser

   Pages 59-66

9. Fisher and the Method of Moments

   • Roy Mensch

   Pages 67-74

10. Fisher’s Contributions to the Analysis of Categorical Data

    • Stephen E. Fienberg

    Pages 75-84

11. Theory of Statistical Estimation: The 1925 Paper

    • David Hinkley

    Pages 85-94

12. Some Numerical Illustrations of Fisher’s Theory of Statistical Estimation

    • George Runger

    Pages 95-100

13. Fisher’s Development of Conditional Inference

    • David Hinkley

    Pages 101-108

14. Fiducial Inference

    • Robert Buehler

    Pages 109-118

15. The Behrens-Fisher and Fieller-Creasy Problems

    • David L. Wallace

    Pages 119-147

16. Fisher, Jeffreys, and the Nature of Probability

    • David A. Lane

    Pages 148-160

17. Discriminant Analysis

    • Somesh Das Gupta

    Pages 161-170

18. Distribution on the Sphere

    • Christopher Bingham

    Pages 171-181

19. Smoking and Lung Cancer

    • R. Dennis Cook

    Pages 182-191

20. Back Matter

    Pages 192-208

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From the reviews: "This collection of essays surveys the most important of Fisher's papers in various areas of statistics. ... ... the monograph will be a useful source of reference to most of Fisher's major papers; it will certainly provide background material for much vigorous discussion." #Australian Journal of Statistics#1

• Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
• Statistik
• Variance
• analysis of variance
• correlation
• mathematical statistics
• statistics

"This collection of essays surveys the most important of Fisher's papers in various areas of statistics. ... ... the monograph will be a useful source of reference to most of Fisher's major papers; it will certainly provide background material for much vigorous discussion." #Australian Journal of Statistics#1

• Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Stephen E. Fienberg

• Department of Statistics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

  David V. Hinkley

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