Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist...

items being shuffled and shuffles them in place. The Fisher–Yates shuffle is named after Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates, who first described it. It is also...

role of the Fisher information in the asymptotic theory of maximum-likelihood estimation was emphasized by the statistician Sir Ronald Fisher (following...

F-ratio, also known as Snedecor's F distribution or the Fisher–Snedecor distribution (after Ronald Fisher and George W. Snedecor), is a continuous probability...

as Fisher's scoring, is a form of Newton's method used in statistics to solve maximum likelihood equations numerically, named after Ronald Fisher. Let...

In statistical classification, the Fisher kernel, named after Ronald Fisher, is a function that measures the similarity of two objects on the basis of...

the Behrens–Fisher problem, named after Walter-Ulrich Behrens and Ronald Fisher, is the problem of interval estimation and hypothesis testing concerning...

natural selection versus neutral processes, including genetic drift. Ronald Fisher, who explained natural selection using Mendelian genetics, held the...

"Bayesian", which displaced "inverse probability", was introduced by Ronald Fisher in 1950. Inverse probability, variously interpreted, was the dominant...

it is valid for all sample sizes. It is named after its inventor, Ronald Fisher, and is one of a class of exact tests, so called because the significance...