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Randomization and Design: II

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Fisher contributed greatly to the advancement of experimental design. Prior to his work, little had been accomplished in the area. Before the 1920s, many people had conducted agricultural field trials, but there were no widely accepted techniques concerning their layout or analysis. Consequently, things were done in whatever manner pleased the experimenter, and statistical analyses of the time were crude and lacking in theoretical justification.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Stephen E. Fienberg

  2. Department of Statistics, Oxford University, 1 South Parks Road, OX1 3TG, Oxford, UK

    David V. Hinkley

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Picard, R. (1980). Randomization and Design: II. In: Fienberg, S.E., Hinkley, D.V. (eds) R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6079-0_6

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