Ronald Fisher
Ronald Fisher
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS, who published as R. A. Fisher, was an English statistician, and biologist, who used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural selection, helping to create a new Darwinist synthesis of evolution known as modern evolutionary synthesis, as well as a prominent eugenicist in the early part of his life...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth17 February 1890
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examination experiments died
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
programming adapted organisms
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
credulity
Faith Is Not Credulity.
statistics degrees natural
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
evolution natural natural-selection
Natural selection is not evolution.
variation experiments related
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.
statistics procedures interpretation
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.