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Christian Jay Abien F. Bucao

BS PSYCH- 1

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, mathematician,geneticist, and eugenicist. Fisher is known as one of the chief architects of the neo-Darwinian synthesis, for his important contributions to statistics, including the analysis of variance (ANOVA), method of maximum likelihood, fiducial inference, and the derivation of various sampling distributions, and for being one of the three principal founders of population genetics. Anders Hald called him "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science",while Richard Dawkins named him "the greatest biologist since Darwin".

Fisher was born in East Finchley in London, England, to George and Katie Fisher. His father was a successful auctioneer and fine arts dealer at one time. He had a happy childhood, being doted on by three older sisters, an older brother, and his mother, but she died from acute peritonitis when he was 14. His father lost his business in several ill-considered transactions only 18 months later. From 1896 until 1904 the family lived at Inverforth House in north London, on the edge of Hampstead Heath, where English Heritage installed ablue plaque in 2002 to mark Ronald Fisher's boyhood residency.

In 1919, Fisher started work at Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England. Here he started a major study of the extensive collections of data recorded over many years. This resulted in a series of reports under the general title Studies in Crop Variation. This began a period of great productivity. Over the next seven years, he pioneered the principles of the design of experiments and elaborated his studies of analysis of variance. He furthered his studies of the statistics of small samples. Perhaps even more important, he began his systematic approach of the analysis of real data as the springboard for the development of new statistical methods. He developed...