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A detail about Father of Statistics


Born17 February 1890
East Finchley, London, England
Died29 July 1962 (aged 72)
Adelaide, South Australia
ResidenceEngland and Australia
NationalityBritish
FieldsStatistics, Genetics, andEvolutionary biology
Institutions University of Adelaide, and CSIRO
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic advisorsSir James Jeans and F.J.M. Stratton
Doctoral studentsC.R. Rao, D. J. Finney, and Walter Bodmer
Known forFisher's fundamental theorem
Maximum likelihood
Fisher information
Analysis of variance
The Fisher–Kolmogorov equation
Fisher's geometric model
Coining the term "null hypothesis"
Fiducial inference
Fisher's exact test
Fisher's principle
Fisherian runaway
The F-distribution
InfluencesLeonard Darwin
InfluencedJoseph Oscar Irwin
A. W. F. Edwards
Georg Rasch
W. D. Hamilton
Oscar Kempthorne, Richard Dawkins
Notable awardsRoyal Medal (1938)
Guy Medal in Gold (1946)
Copley Medal (1955)
Linnean Society of London'sDarwin–Wallace Medal (1958).
Notes:
He was the father-in-law of George E. P. Box.
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, andeugenicist. Fisher is known as one of the chief architects of the neo-Darwinian synthesis, and for his important contributions to statistics, including the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), method of maximum likelihood, fiducial inference, and the derivation of various sampling distributions. Anders Hald called him "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science",[1] whileRichard Dawkins named him "the greatest biologist since Darwin".[2]

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