R. A. Fisher in the 21st century. Invited paper presented at the 1996 R. A. Fisher lecture. (With comments).

DOI10.1214/ss/1028905930zbMath1074.01536OpenAlexW1848706969WikidataQ56135041 ScholiaQ56135041MaRDI QIDQ5926344

Publication date: 7 May 2001

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1028905930

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrap confidence intervals Bayes empirical Bayes fiducial frequentist model selection Statistical inference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) History of statistics (62-03)

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