Title: The Significance of Fisher: A Review of<i>R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist</i>
Abstract: Abstract A number of colleagues have made helpful criticism and comments. They certainly do not uniformly agree with my judgments and emphases, but my warm appreciation goes to Keith Baker, Albert Biderman, Richard Brown, K. Alexander Brownlee, Donald T. Campbell, William G. Cochran, Lee J. Cronbach, Cuthbert Daniel, F.N. David, Arthur P. Dempster, Churchill Eisenhart, Stephen E. Fienberg, David Finney, Milton Friedman, I.J. Good, Bernard G. Greenberg, N.T. Gridgeman, William Jaffé, Oscar Kempthorne, Erich L. Lehmann, Richard C. Lewontin, Donald MacKenzie, William G. Madow, Margaret E. Martin, Frederick Mosteller, Jerzy Neyman, John W. Pratt, Donald B. Rubin, I.R. Savage, Hilary L. Seal, Hanan Selvin, Oscar B. Sheynin, David L. Sills, Theodor D. Sterling, George Stigler, Stephen M. Stigler, Fred L. Strodtbeck, Alan Stuart, Judith M. Tanur, Ronald Thisted, Howard Wainer, Frank Yates, Arnold Zellner and Harriet Zuckerman. Joan Fisher Box's biography of R.A. Fisher presents a lively and detailed description of his life and scientific work, both in statistics and genetics. The book's greatest contribution is the background and motivation it provides in studying Fisher's ideas. The book's major weaknesses are its failure to confront fundamental paradoxes in Fisher's thought and its lack of precision at some points of exposition. The review includes discussions of randomization, significance testing, and eugenics.
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-12-01
Language: en
Type: review
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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