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    Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist...
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    The Ronald Fisher bibliography contains the works published by the English statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher (1890–1962). Statistical Methods for...
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  • the Fisher information in the asymptotic theory of maximum-likelihood estimation was emphasized and explored by the statistician Sir Ronald Fisher (following...
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    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...
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  • In statistical classification, the Fisher kernel, named after Ronald Fisher, is a function that measures the similarity of two objects on the basis of...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • the Behrens–Fisher problem, named after Walter-Ulrich Behrens and Ronald Fisher, is the problem of interval estimation and hypothesis testing concerning...
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  • natural selection versus neutral processes, including genetic drift. Ronald Fisher, who explained natural selection using Mendelian genetics, held the...
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    literature: Iris flower data set – Multivariate data set introduced by Ronald Fisher (1936). Provided online by University of California-Irvine Machine Learning...
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    Fisherian runaway (category Ronald Fisher)
    a sexual selection mechanism proposed by the mathematical biologist Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century, to account for the evolution of ostentatious...
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  • 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...
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    "Bayesian", which displaced "inverse probability", was introduced by Ronald Fisher in 1950. Inverse probability, variously interpreted, was the dominant...
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    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...
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  • generalized extreme value distribution is known as the Fisher–Tippett distribution, named after Ronald Fisher and L. H. C. Tippett who recognised three different...
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  • most celebrated argument in evolutionary biology". Fisher's principle was outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection...
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  • cricketers "Ronald Fisher". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 October 2020. "Ronald Fisher". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 15 October 2020. Ronald Fisher at ESPNcricinfo...
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  • Sarah, Duchess of York Ronald Ferguson (economist), American researcher of the racial education achievement gap Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), British statistician...
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    Lady tasting tea (category Ronald Fisher)
    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...
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    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...
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  • In directional statistics, the von Mises–Fisher distribution (named after Richard von Mises and Ronald Fisher), is a probability distribution on the (...
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    He was a son of the naturalist Charles Darwin, and also a mentor to Ronald Fisher, a statistician and evolutionary biologist. Leonard Darwin was born...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • genetics is described in the Wright-Fisher model after Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher (1922, 1930) and (1931). Wright-Fisher populations have constant size...
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  • Ron Fisher may refer to: Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist Ron Fisher (politician) (born...
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  • Fisher's geometric model (FGM) is an evolutionary model of the effect sizes and effect on fitness of spontaneous mutations proposed by Ronald Fisher to...
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    KPP–Fisher equation (named after Andrey Kolmogorov, Ivan Petrovsky, Nikolai Piskunov and Ronald Fisher) also known as the KPP equation, Fisher equation...
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