Ronald Fisher

Professor Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British eugenicist, evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. He has been described by Richard Dawkins as "The greatest of Darwin’s successors", and the historian of statistics Anders Hald said "Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science."

Bibliography

A selection from Fisher's 395 articles

These are available on the University of Adelaide website:

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• "Frequency distribution of the values of the correlation coefficient in samples from an indefinitely large population." Biometrika, 10: 507-521. (1915)
• "The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance" Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., 52: 399-433. (1918). It was in this paper that the word variance was first introduced into probability theory and statistics.
• "On the mathematical foundations of theoretical statistics" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A, 222: 309-368. (1922)
• "On the dominance ratio. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb., 42: 321-341. (1922)
• "On a distribution yielding the error functions of several well known statistics" Proc. Int. Cong. Math., Toronto, 2: 805-813. (1924)
• "Theory of statistical estimation" Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 22: 700-725 (1925)
• "Applications of Student's distribution" Metron, 5: 90-104 (1925)
• "The arrangement of field experiments" J. Min. Agric. G. Br., 33: 503-513. (1926)
• "The general sampling distribution of the multiple correlation coefficient" Proceedings of Royal Society, A, 121: 654-673 (1928)
• "Two new properties of mathematical likelihood" Proceedings of Royal Society, A, 144: 285-307 (1934)

Books by Fisher

Full publication details are available on the University of Adelaide website:

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• Statistical Methods for Research Workers (1925) ISBN 0050021702.
• The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) ISBN 0198504403.
• The design of experiments (1935) ISBN 0028446909, ISBN B0000CKL1X
• The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems (in Annals of Eugenics 7/1936)
• Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (1938, coauthor:Frank Yates)
• The theory of inbreeding (1949) ISBN 0122575504, ISBN 0050008730
• Contributions to mathematical statistics (1950) ISBN B0000CHSZU.
• Statistical methods and statistical inference (1956) ISBN 0028447409

Biographies of Fisher

• Fisher, Box Joan (1978) R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley, ISBN 0471093009.
• Yates F & Mather K (1963) Ronald Aylmer Fisher. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 9:91-120 Available on University of Adelaide website