R.A. Fisher and the development of statistics - a view in his centerary year

Abstract

It is certainly appropriate that The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland should present a paper about the great statistician Fisher in this year, the centenary of his birth. I am very pleased to be giving the paper, but I must admit that writing it posed some problems. There have already been many other commemorations of Fisher this year: by statistical societies; institutions he worked in and various journals. I do not want to merely repeat what has been said elsewhere and what some of the audience may already know.