Statistical Methods for Research Workers
- Statistical Methods for Research Workers
"Statistical Methods for Research Workers" (ISBN 0-05-002170-2) is a classic 1925 book on statistics by the statistician R.A. Fisher. It is considered by some to be one of the 20th century's most influential books on statistical methods.
Chapters
* Prefaces
# Introduction
# Diagrams
# Distributions
# Tests of Goodness of Fit, Independence and Homogeneity; with table of χ2
# Tests of Significance of Means, Difference of Means, and Regression Coefficients
# The Correlation Coefficient
# Intraclass Correlations and the Analysis of Variance
# Furthern Applications of the Analysis of Variance
* SOURCES USED FOR DATA AND METHODS INDEX
In the second edition of 1928 a chapter 9 was added: The Principles of Statistical Estimation.
Commentary
* The March 1951 issue of the "Journal of the American Statistical Association" contains articles celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first edition.
*A.W.F. Edwards (2005) "R. A. Fisher, Statistical Methods for Research Workers, 1925," in I. Grattan-Guinness (ed) "Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics: Case Studies, 1640-1940," Amsterdam: Elsevier.
External links
* [http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Fisher/Methods/ Text of first edition]
* [http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/Nature.htm Nature review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods]
* [http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/bmj.htm BMJ review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods]
* [http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/Student.htm Student’s review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods]
* [http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/esp.htm E. S. Pearson’s reviews of Fisher’s Statistical Methods]
* [http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/Hotelling.htm Harold Hotelling's review of Fishers’ Statistical Methods]
* [http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/Isserlis.htm Leon Isserlis’s review of Fishers’ Statistical Methods]
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0198522290 The 14th edition (prepared from notes left by Fisher when he died in 1962) is reprinted as the first part of Statistical Methods, Experimental Design and Scientific Inference]
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