Statistical Methods, Experimental Design, and Scientific Inference

by Ronald A. Fisher

This volume brings together three seminal works by the late R.A. Fisher, whose writings have had more influence on statistical theory and practice than any other 20th century statistician. It includes Statistical Methods for Research Workers, Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference, and The Design of Experiments, all republished in their entirety, with only minor corrections. An informative foreword by Dr. F. Yates, one of the author's closest colleagues and collaborators, discusses the key issues found in the texts, shedding new light on how Fisher's ideas have become mainstays of modern statistical practice.

Genres: Research Methods, Mathematics

832 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 1990

About the author

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist.

Among other things, Fisher is well known for his contributions to statistics by creating ANOVA (analysis of variance), Fisher's exact test and Fisher's equation.

Reviews

[Bill White · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have to admit I returned this one to the library before reading it all. It was interesting from a historical perspective, especially the idea of doing real-world statistics without any automated computational devices, other than tricks of pen-and-paper. This work describes things taken for granted in programming languages like R.