Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference

by Ronald A. Fisher

The book is a summary and distillation of the attempts to give a rational account of scientific inference as a means of understanding the real world.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist.

Among other things, Fisher is well known for his contributions to statistics by creating ANOVA (analysis of variance), Fisher's exact test and Fisher's equation.