1. SUMMARY
BIOGRAPHY OF PROMINENT STATISTICIANS
KARL PEARSON RONALD FISHER WILLIAM SEALY JOHN TUKEY DAVID COX
GOSSET
Born 27 March 1857 17 February 1890 June 13, 1876 June 16, 1915 15 July 1924
Islinton, London, East Finchley, London Canterbury, Kent, Massachusetts USA Birmingham, England
England
Died 27 April 1936 29 July 1962 October 16, 1937 July 26, 2000 -
(aged 79) (aged 72) (aged 61) (aged 85)
Coldharbour, , England Adelaide, Australia Beaconsfield, England N. Brunswick, N.Jersey
Nationality British British British American British
Fields Lawyer, Germanist, Statistics Mathematical statistics Mathematician Statistics
eugenicist, Evolutionary biology Agricultural
mathematician and Genetics Biometric studies.
statistician (primarily the
latter)
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2. Institution University College, Rothamsted University College, Bell Labs University of
London Experimental Station London Princeton University Cambridge
King's College, University College Imperial College,
Guinness Research
Cambridge Cambridge University Nuffield College,
Laboratory
CSIRO
Known Pearson distribution Fisher's fundamental Student's t-distribution Tukey's range test Cox proportional
For Pearson's r theorem Poisson distribution Tukey lambda hazards model
Pearson's chi-squared test Maximum likelihood algebraical equivalence distribution, Tukey's test Stochastic processes
Phi coefficient Fisher information of additivity Design of
Analysis of variance Tukey's lemma experiments
Fisher–Kolmogorov FFT algorithm Analysis of binary
equation Box plot data
Fisher's geometric model Exploratory Data
Coining the term 'null Analysis
hypothesis' Coining the term 'bit'
Fiducial inference Stem-and-Leaf Diagram
Fisher's exact test
Fisher's principle
Fisherian runaway
F-distribution
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3. Famous The Grammar of Science Statistical Methods for “The Application of Robust estimates of Planning of
Publication (1892), Research Workers (1925) the Law of Error.” location: survey and experiments
advances. (1972).. (1958)
On the dissection of The Genetical Theory of
On the Error of
asymmetrical frequency Natural Selection (1930) Graphical analysis of Principles of
Counting With a
curves (1894) multiresponse data. Statistical
Haemacytometer
The Design of
(1998). . Inference
Skew variation in Experiments (1935)
(Cambridge
“The Probable Error
homogeneous material (1954). Statistical
University Press,
The use of multiple of a Mean”
(1895) problems of the Kinsey
2006).
measurements in
report on sexual behavior
A mathematical theory of taxonomic problems (in “Probable Error of a
in the human male. Selected
random migration (1906) Annals of Eugenics Correlation
Journal of the American Statistical Papers
7/1936) Coefficient”
Statistical Association. of Sir David Cox
Tables for Statisticians
2 Volume Set
and Biometricians (1914) Contributions to
“Comparison (1985). Exploring Data
mathematical statistics,
Between Balanced Tables, Trends and Principles of
On the construction of
(1950)
and Ran dom Shapes. Applied Statistics
tables and on
Arrangements of (CUP) With
interpolation (London, Statistical methods and
(1991). Fundamentals of
Field Plots” Christl A.
1920) scientific inference
exploratory analysis of
Donnelly
(1956)
variance. Wiley.
Tables of Incomplete “Student’s” Collected
Editor of
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4. Beta Function (1934) Collected Papers of R.A. Papers (1977). Data analysis Biometrika
Fisher (1971–1974). and regression : a second
Founded the journal
course in statistics.
“Biometrika” whose
object was the dev. of
statistical theory
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