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As background to a study of their work, this section briefly sketches some of the main features of the lives of these two men.
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The students doing best in the examinations were designated as wranglers.
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Rothamstead is an agricultural experiment station located at Harpenden, about 25 miles north of London. An account of its history is provided in Box ( 1978 , Chap. 4).
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For a retrospective look at Fisher’s life and work with discussion by many statisticians, see Savage ( 1976 ).
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S. N. Bernstein (1880–1968). For an account of the life and work of this teacher of Neyman, see Heyde et al. ( 2001 ), pp. 339–342.
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M. Greenwood (1889–1949) was Professor of epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1928 to 1945.
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The role of inverse probability in the nineteenth century is discussed, for example, in Stigler ( 1986 ) and Hald (1998).
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For discussion of and historical background on this approach, see Stigler (2007).
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Lehmann, E.L. (2011). Introduction. In: Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9500-1_1
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