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An apocryphal story tells of the statistician who encountered a biologist at a cocktail party many years ago. After some polite chatter about the weather, the biologist asked: “Have you ever heard of the geneticist, Sir R.A. Fisher? A colleague once told me that he dabbled in statistics.” Of course, when Fisher did his pioneering work, statistics as a field was in its infancy, and the biologist’s confusion might have been understandable. Today, those who make extensive statistical contributions to other fields are rightly viewed as statisticians, and in this regard Fred Mosteller is, to many, the statistician par excellence.
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Fienberg, S.E. (1990). Contributions to Methodology and Applications. In: Fienberg, S.E., Hoaglin, D.C., Kruskal, W.H., Tanur, J.M. (eds) A Statistical Model. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3384-8_5
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