Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist...

role of the Fisher information in the asymptotic theory of maximum-likelihood estimation was emphasized by the statistician Sir Ronald Fisher (following...

items being shuffled and shuffles them in place. The Fisher–Yates shuffle is named after Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates, who first described it. It is also...

F-ratio, also known as Snedecor's F distribution or the Fisher–Snedecor distribution (after Ronald Fisher and George W. Snedecor), is a continuous probability...

natural selection versus neutral processes, including genetic drift. Ronald Fisher, who explained natural selection using Mendelian genetics, held the...

as Fisher's scoring, is a form of Newton's method used in statistics to solve maximum likelihood equations numerically, named after Ronald Fisher. Let...

the Behrens–Fisher problem, named after Walter-Ulrich Behrens and Ronald Fisher, is the problem of interval estimation and hypothesis testing concerning...

In statistical classification, the Fisher kernel, named after Ronald Fisher, is a function that measures the similarity of two objects on the basis of...

the differences among means. ANOVA was developed by the statistician Ronald Fisher. ANOVA is based on the law of total variance, where the observed variance...

a sexual selection mechanism proposed by the mathematical biologist Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century, to account for the evolution of ostentatious...

Sarah, Duchess of York Ronald Ferguson (economist), American researcher of the racial education achievement gap Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), British statistician...

data set or Fisher's Iris data set is a multivariate data set used and made famous by the British statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher in his 1936...

it is valid for all sample sizes. It is named after its inventor, Ronald Fisher, and is one of a class of exact tests, so called because the significance...

generalized extreme value distribution is known as the Fisher–Tippett distribution, named after Ronald Fisher and L. H. C. Tippett who recognised three different...

literature: Iris flower data set – Multivariate data set introduced by Ronald Fisher (1936). Provided online by University of California-Irvine Machine Learning...

Three Iris varieties are used in the Iris flower data set outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1936 paper The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems...

"Bayesian", which displaced "inverse probability", was introduced by Ronald Fisher in 1950. Inverse probability, variously interpreted, was the dominant...

squares. The name was coined by George W. Snedecor, in honour of Ronald Fisher. Fisher initially developed the statistic as the variance ratio in the 1920s...

The Ronald Fisher bibliography contains the works published by the English statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher (1890–1962). Statistical Methods for...

could lead to speciation. The theory was given a mathematical basis by Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century. Sexual selection can lead males to extreme...

In statistics, the Fisher transformation (or Fisher z-transformation) of a Pearson correlation coefficient is its inverse hyperbolic tangent (artanh)....

The Design of Experiments is a 1935 book by the English statistician Ronald Fisher about the design of experiments and is considered a foundational work...

most celebrated argument in evolutionary biology". Fisher's principle was outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection...

Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1915, they became the core of classical genetics. Ronald Fisher combined these ideas with the theory of natural selection in his 1930...

KPP–Fisher equation (named after Andrey Kolmogorov, Ivan Petrovsky, Nikolai Piskunov and Ronald Fisher) also known as the KPP equation, Fisher equation...

mates, can explain observed differences between sexes in many species. Ronald Fisher, the English biologist, developed a number of ideas concerning secondary...

devised by Ronald Fisher and reported in his book The Design of Experiments (1935). The experiment is the original exposition of Fisher's notion of a...

is the algorithmic sufficient statistic. The concept is due to Sir Ronald Fisher in 1920. Stephen Stigler noted in 1973 that the concept of sufficiency...

Heritage commemorated Viscount Leverhulme and geneticist and statistician Ronald Fisher, who lived there as a child from 1896 to 1904, with blue plaques. Inverforth...

In directional statistics, the von Mises–Fisher distribution (named after Richard von Mises and Ronald Fisher), is a probability distribution on the (p−1){\displaystyle...