Ronald Aylmer Fisher
1890 - 1962

- Born
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17 February 1890
East Finchley, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Died
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29/07/1962
Adelaide, Australia, Oceania
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 02/05/1929
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 39
- Occupation
- Statistician; Geneticist; Teacher
- Relationships
- Married (Ruth) Eileen Guinness, 1917, daughter of Dr. Henry Gratton Guiness (1861-1915), physician and missionary; eight children born 1919-1938; separated 1943. A daughter, Joan Fisher Box, wrote a biography of her father: she married the statistician George E. P. Box
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Referee's report by William Lawrence Balls, on a paper 'The influence of rainfall on the yield of wheat at Rothamsted' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Creator: William Lawrence Balls Reference number: RR/28/130 -
Referee's report by William Napier Shaw, on a paper 'The influence of rainfall on the yield of wheat at Rothamsted' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Creator: William Napier Shaw Reference number: RR/28/131 -
Referee's report by George Udny Yule, on a paper 'Triplet children in Great Britain and Ireland' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Creator: George Udny Yule Reference number: RR/35/75 -
Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The concepts of inverse probability and fiducial probability referring to unknown parameters' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Creator: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Reference number: RR/47/51 -
Referee's report by Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, on a paper 'On the evidence against the chemical induction of melanism in lepidoptera' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Creator: Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall Reference number: RR/47/52 -
Referee's report by George Udny Yule, on a paper 'On the evidence against the chemical induction of melanism in lepidoptera' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Creator: George Udny Yule Reference number: RR/47/53
Referee of
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Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'A statistical study of the distribution of species in grassland associations' by Geoffrey Emett Blackman
Creator: Ronald Aylmer Fisher Reference number: RR/45/62 -
Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'The intellectual resemblance of twins' by Louis Herrman and Lancelot Thomas Hogben
Creator: Ronald Aylmer Fisher Reference number: RR/45/74 -
Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'The correlation of relatives on the supposition of sex-linked transmission' by Lancelot Thomas Hogben
Creator: Ronald Aylmer Fisher Reference number: RR/45/98 -
Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'Contributions to the mathematical theory of epidemics. II. —The problem of endemicity' by William Ogilvy Kermack and A G McKendrick
Creator: Ronald Aylmer Fisher Reference number: RR/46/4 -
Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses' by Jerzy Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson
Creator: Ronald Aylmer Fisher Reference number: RR/46/43 -
Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'Partial inbreeding in mendelian populations, with special reference to human cousin marriage' by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and P Moshinksky
Creator: Ronald Aylmer Fisher Reference number: RR/47/80