1976/05/01 by Leonard J. Savage · 4 citations
Mathematics · #Statistics Education and Methodologies #Advanced Statistical Methods and Models #Probability and Statistical Research #Mathematics #Consistency (knowledge bases) #Statistical inference #Statistical hypothesis testing #Inference #Fiducial inference #Econometrics #Fisher information #Argument (complex analysis) #Statistics #Likelihood principle #Maximum likelihood #Epistemology #Frequentist inference #Bayesian inference #Likelihood function #Bayesian probability #Philosophy #Quasi-maximum likelihood
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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.