To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
Ronald Fisher Quotes
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
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| Birth: | 17th February, 1890 |
| Death: | 29th July, 1962 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Mathematician |
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and geneticist.
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