Happy Birthday Sir Ronald Fisher

Ronald Aylmer Fisher.

Born: 17 February, 1890, in East Finchley, London, England 

Knighted: 1952

Other major Honours: Fellow of the Royal Society (1929), Royal Medal (1938), Guy Medal in Gold (1947), Copley Medal (1956), Darwin-Wallace Medal (1958)

Died: 29 July 1962, in Adelaide, S.A., Australia

If you're a student of Econometrics, think of:

• Maximum likelihood estimation
• Fisher's information
• Analysis of variance
• Sampling distributions (for various statistics)
• The null hypothesis
• The F distribution (sort of)

Some previous related posts:

• And in the Red Corner.....
• A Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Marriage
• On the Importance of Gong Global
• Whose F Distribution Was It?

The Fisher digital archives are housed in the University of Adelaide Library.


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