“After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.”

— Ronald Fisher

Contributions to Mathematical Statistics, New York: Wiley, 1950, p. 10.308a.
1950s

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English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, a… 1890–1962

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