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	Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was born February 17, 1890 in East Finchley, London to a fine arts auctioneer named George ...
		This insistence, however, drove Fisher to redraw and explain in many different terms the points he was trying to make, and in the process he thought of theories that he and others would expand upon later on.
		In 1914, Fisher began teaching high school mathematics and physics in order to serve his country as he was rejected from the army because of his eyesight.
		Fisher was little known then, and the fact that Pearson had gone over his head and criticized the method of maximum likelihood that Fisher had used, and labeled it inverse inference, something Fisher had deliberately tried to avoid.
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	Ronald Fisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist.
		Fisher was born in East Finchley in London, to George and Katie Fisher.
		It was Fisher who referred to the growth rate r (used in equations such as the logistic function) as the Malthusian parameter, as a criticism of the writings of Thomas Robert Malthus.
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		Fisher's early papers on the theory of distributions were favorably recieved by Karl Pearson.
		Fisher felt that that Pearson no longer had original contributions to make -- probably true -- and that he was unfairly criticized -- partly true.
		FIsher was knighted in 1952 and recieved numerous honors, including membership in the Royal Society, the National Academy of Science (USA) and Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
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		Ronald Aylmer Fisher was the second of twins, but the older twin was still-born.
		Fisher was awarded a 80 pounds scholarship from Caius and Gonville College, Cambridge, which was necessary to finance his studies since his father had lost his fortune.
		Fisher's idea was to arrange an experiment as a set of partitioned sub-experiments that differ from each other in having one or several factors or treatments applied to them.
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	Statistics at St. Olaf College
		The contributions Fisher made included the development of methods suitable for small samples, the discovery of the precise distributions of many sample statistics and the invention of analysis of variance.
		The contributions Fisher made included the development of methods suitable for small samples, like those of Gosset, the discovery of the precise distributions of many sample statistics and the invention of analysis of variance.
		Fisher is considered one of the founders of modern statistics because of his many important contributions.
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		The contributions Ronald Fisher made included the development of methods suitable for small samples, the discovery of the precise distributions of many sample statistics and the invention of analysis of variance.
		It was Fisher's interest in the theory of errors in astronomical observations that eventually led him to investigate statistical problems.
		Fisher gave up being a mathematics teacher in 1919 to work at the Rothamsted Agricultural Experiment Station where he worked as a biologist and made many contributions to both statistics and genetics.
	www.roma.unisa.edu.au /10920/Fisher.htm (281 words)

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		Biography of Ronald Aylmer Fisher - the founder of the theory
		Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British mathematical biologist whose work in the field of statistics resulted in the formulation of a methodology in which the analysis of results obtained using small samples produced interpretations that were objective and valid overall.
		Ronald Fisher, FRS (February 17, 1890 – July 29, 1962) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician.
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	Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Sir Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Ronald Fisher was born in London on Feb. 17, 1890, and was educated at Cambridge University, where he specialized in mathematics and physics.
		Another and cognate area that Fisher transformed was the planning of experiments in which considerable variation of results is to be expected and in which ancillary factors have to be taken into account.
		Fisher was one of the first to tackle the tough mathematical problems and conceptual difficulties in this area.
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	Fisher biography
		In 1933 Karl Pearson retired as Galton Professor of eugenics at University College and Fisher was appointed to the chair as his successor.
		There was a certain irony in the fact that Fisher succeeded Pearson in 1933 for the two had a long running dispute.
		Although at this stage Fisher was only starting out on his career, he felt angry that Pearson had published an article which was critical of his results without telling him that he was about to do so.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Fisher.html (1965 words)

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		Fisher graduated from Cambridge in 1912 with a B.A. in Astronomy.
		Fisher identified three fundamental problems of statistics: 1) specification of the type of population the data was collected from 2) estimation and 3) distribution.
		In conclusion, Fisher’s contributions included developing methods suited for smaller samples, the invention of analysis of variance, introduction of the term maximum likelihood, and new ideas about hypothesis testing.
	www4.stat.ncsu.edu /~gumpertz/thumbnailbios/Fisher1.doc (279 words)

	Ronald Aylmer Fisher Biography \| World of Sociology
		Fisher, a surviving twin and the youngest of seven children, was born in the London suburb of East Finchley, England, on February 17, 1890.
		Fisher said that all material units in an experiment must be randomly selected samples from the entire population they are intended to represent.
		Regarded as an authentic genius even by his dissenters, to whom he was invariably hostile, Fisher nonetheless was seen by many as quirkish and reactionary and a master of the unbarbed phrase.
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	Ronald Fisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, Fisher wrote that randomization tests were "in no sense put forward to supersede the common and expeditious tests based on the Gaussian theory of errors." Fisher thus effectively began the field of non-parametric statistics, even though he didn't believe it was a necessary move.
		As a result Fisher married Ruth Eileen at a secret wedding ceremony without her mother's knowledge, on 26 April 1917, only days after Ruth Eileen's 17th birthday.
		Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley, ISBN 0-471-09300-9.
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	Ronald Fisher's childhood home
		When Ronald was born in 1890 the family—there were five older children—was living in Finchley North London.
		George Fisher, Ronald’s father, was partner in Robinson and Fisher, a firm of auctioneers whose reputation, according to Box, rivalled Sotheby’s or Christie’s.
		The plaque was unveiled by June Posey, one of Fisher's daughters, in the presence of her brother Harry Fisher and one of her sisters, Margaret Fisher, and three of Fisher's grandchildren, David Newsom, Ruth Hodson and Amanda Posey.
	www.economics.soton.ac.uk /staff/aldrich/fisherguide/blueplaque.htm (819 words)

	Ronald Fisher
		To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a postmodern examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
		It was Fisher's interest in the theory of errors in astronomical observations that ventually led him to investigate statistical problems.
		These are (i) specification of the kind of population that the data came from (ii) estimation and (iii) distribution.
	www.shsu.edu /~icc_cmf/bio/fisher.html (525 words)

	Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
		Fisher's prolific findings profited from his work at an agricultural research center, and even from a physical inability that he bore throughout his life: his near-blindness that kept him away from the military during the First World War and forced him to focus his inquiry on abstract speculation.
		The general principles of Fisher's theory are exposed in his book Statistical Methods for Research Workers, whereas his work The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection presents a mathematical treatment of evolution.
		Box Fisher, J. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist.
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	Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		FISHER, SIR RONALD AYLMER [Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer] 1890-1962, English statistician and geneticist, b.
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		Fisher's life and death in Australia, 1959-1962.(Ronald Aylmer Fisher)(Biography)
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	Curious Cat Deming Connections by John Hunter - Dr. R. A. Fisher Biography
		Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, (17 February 1890 - 29 July 1962) was an extraordinarily talented evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician.
		His work on the theory of population genetics also made him one of the three great figures of that field, together with Sewall Wright and J. Haldane, and as such one of the founders of the neodarwinian modern synthesis.
		Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) with some nice photos.
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	Fisher, Ronald Aylmer - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		Ronald Aylmer Fisher was Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge 1943-57, and Professor of Genetics, University College, London 1933-43.
		During his retirement Fisher became a Research Fellow at the Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO, Adelaide 1959-62.
		Besides laying the foundation of virtually the whole of modern mathematical statistics and developing many particular aspects both theoretical and applied, Fisher made a great many outstanding contributions to genetics, particularly in its biometrical and evolutionary aspects.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P000405b.htm (176 words)

	Evolution - A-Z - Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890 - 1962) was a British mathematician and geneticist whose book, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) proved that Mendelian genetics is an essential underlying mechanism of Darwiniam evolution.
		His work laid the foundations for statistical analysis of all subsequent experiments in the life sciences.
		This photograph of R.A. Fisher was taken in 1912.
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	Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer - MSN Encarta
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	Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher — Infoplease.com
		Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, 1890–1962, English statistician and geneticist, b.
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	Conferences, Meetings and Calls for Papers
		On Friday 17 May the Royal Statistical Society held a meeting in London to mark the unveiling of a memorial plaque to Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher at the house in Hampstead where he spent his childhood.
		The plaque was unveiled by June Posey, one of Fisher's daughters, in the presence of her brother Harry Fisher and one of her sisters, Margaret Fisher, and three of Fisher's grandchildren, David Newsom, Ruth Hodson and Amanda Poesy.
		M.J.R.Healey spoke on Fisher's statistical work, A.W.F.Edwards on Fisher's genetical work and Alan Grafen on Fisher's contributions to evolutionary theory.
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		R.A. Fisher started his academic life as an astronomer before turning to genetics.
		His mathematical and statistical analysis provided part of the foundation for uniting the ideas of Darwin and Gregor Mendel.
		R.A. Fisher and the Making of Maximum Likelihood 1912-22.
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	The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ronald Fisher
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		According to our current on-line database, Ronald Fisher has 2 students and 345 descendants.
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	Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962), Mathematical statistician and geneticist
		Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962), Mathematical statistician and geneticist
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