## Statistical Science

### Fisher in 1921

Stephen Stigler

#### Abstract

Ronald A. Fisher’s 1921 article on mathematical statistics (submitted and read in 1921; published in 1922) was arguably the most influential article on that subject in the twentieth century, yet up to that time Fisher was primarily occupied with other pursuits. A number of previously published documents are examined in a new light to argue that the origin of that work owes a considerable (and unacknowledged) debt to a challenge issued in 1916 by Karl Pearson.

#### Article information

Source
Statist. Sci., Volume 20, Number 1 (2005), 32-49.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 6 June 2005

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1118065041

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/088342305000000025

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2182986

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1100.01511

#### Citation

Stigler, Stephen. Fisher in 1921. Statist. Sci. 20 (2005), no. 1, 32--49. doi:10.1214/088342305000000025. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1118065041

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