Overview: Written by the pre-eminent E. L Lehman.Examines the history of statistics through the personal and professional relationships of Neyman and Fisher, two of the discipline‘s most influential contributor.Classical statistical theory—hypothesis testing, estimation, and the design of experiments and sample surveys—is mainly the creation of two men: Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962) and Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981). Their contributions sometimes complemented each other, sometimes occurred in parallel, and, particularly at later stages, often were in strong opposition. The two men would not be pl
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