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R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1980

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Editors:
  1. Stephen E. Fienberg

    1. Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. David V. Hinkley

    1. Department of Statistics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics (LNS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  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

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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