References for R A Fisher

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  1. N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]
  3. Obituary in The Times [available on the Web]

Books:

  1. J H Bennett (ed.), Statistical inference and analysis : selected correspondence of R A Fisher (Oxford, 1989).
  2. J F Box, R A Fisher, The life of a scientist (New York, 1978).
  3. Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Biometrics 18 (1962).
  4. Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Biometrics 20 (1964).

Articles:

  1. J C Gower, Ronald Aylmer Fisher 1890-1962, Mathematical Spectrum 23 (1990-91), 76-86.
  2. E S Pearson, Some early correspondence between W S Gosset, R A Fisher and Karl Pearson, Biometrika 55 (1968), 445-457.
  3. E S Pearson, Some early correspondence between W S Gosset, R A Fisher and Karl Pearson, in E S Pearson and M G Kendall, Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability (London, 1970), 405-418.
  4. E S Pearson, Some reflections on continuity in the development of mathematical statistics 1890-94, Biometrika 54 (1967), 341-355.
  5. Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 9 (1963), 92-129.
  6. Ronald Aylmer Fisher, J. Royal Statistical Society 126A (1963), 159-170.
  7. Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Science 156 (1967), 1456-1462.
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