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While Pearson had spent a lifetime formulating statistics for such individual predictors as a distribution’s mean and variance , and Fisher helped improve Pearson’s statistics, Fisher also offered a new and groundbreaking insight into the overall power of statistical models. While at Rothamsted, Fisher also refined a geometric interpretation of statistical measures that dated back to Gauss , and integrated most of the statistical measures we employ today.
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Read, C. (2016). Ronald Fisher’s Great Idea. In: The Econometricians. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-34137-2_13
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