On Rereading R. A. Fisher

Leonard J. Savage

doi:10.1214/aos/1176343456

May, 1976 On Rereading R. A. Fisher

Leonard J. Savage

Ann. Statist. 4(3): 441-500 (May, 1976). DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176343456

Abstract

Fisher's contributions to statistics are surveyed. His background, skills, temperament, and style of thought and writing are sketched. His mathematical and methodological contributions are outlined. More attention is given to the technical concepts he introduced or emphasized, such as consistency, sufficiency, efficiency, information, and maximum likelihood. Still more attention is given to his conception and concepts of probability and inference, including likelihood, the fiducial argument, and hypothesis testing. Fisher is at once very near to and very far from modern statistical thought generally.

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Leonard J. Savage. "On Rereading R. A. Fisher." Ann. Statist. 4 (3) 441 - 500, May, 1976. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176343456

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Published: May, 1976

First available in Project Euclid: 12 April 2007

zbMATH: 0325.62008

MathSciNet: MR403889

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aos/1176343456

Subjects:

Primary: 62A99

Keywords: $k$-statistics , 62-03 , Ancillary statistics , Bayes' rule , Behrens-Fisher problem , consistency , Design of experiments , Edgeworth , efficiency , estimation , fiducial probability , Fisher consistency , Hypothesis testing , induction , inductive behavior , Information , inverse probability , karl Pearson , likelihood function , likelihood principle , maximum likelihood , probability definition , probit , R. A. Fisher , R. A. Fisher's contributions to statistics , Randomization , randomization tests , reference set , sampling distributions , statistical inference , statistics , sufficiency

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