Collected Papers of  R.A. Fisher,
Relating to Statistical and Mathematical Theory and Applications (excluding Genetics)

The CP numbers below refer to the paper number as published in "The Collected Papers of R.A. Fisher", edited by J.H. Bennett, published in five volumes by the University of Adelaide between 1971 and 1974.
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CP1 On an Absolute Criterion for Fitting Frequency Curves.
Messenger of Mathmatics, 41: 155-160 (1912)
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CP4 Frequency Distribution of the Values of the Correlation Coefficient in Samples from an Indefinitely Large Population.
Biometrika, 10: 507-521 (1915) Reproduced with permission of Biometrika Trustees
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CP7 Biometrika.
Eugenics Review, 8: 62-64 (1916)
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CP12 A Mathematical Examination of the Methods of Determining the Accuracy of an Observation by the Mean Error, and by the Mean Square Error.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 80: 758-770 (1920)  Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
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CP14 On the "Probable Error" of a Coefficient of Correlation Deduced from a Small Sample.
Metron, 1: 3-32 (1921) Reproduced with permission of Metron
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CP15 Studies in Crop Variation. I. An examination of the yield of dressed grain from Broadbalk.
Journal of Agricultural Science, 11: 107-135 (1921) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP16 Some Remarks on the Methods Formulated in a Recent Article on the Quantitative Analysis of Plant Growth.
Annals of Applied Biology, 7: 367-372 (1921) Reproduced with permission of the Annals of Applied Biology.
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CP18 On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Statistics.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A: 222: 309-368 (1922) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society. Split into 2 PDF files - part 1 and part 2
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CP19 On the Interpretation of x2from Contingency Tables, and the Calculation of P.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 85: 87-94 (1922) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers
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CP20 The Goodness of Fit of Regression Formulae and the Distribution of Regression Coefficients.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 85: 597-612 (1922) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers
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CP21 The Correlation of Weekly Rainfall.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 48: 234-242 (1922) Reproduced with permission of The Royal Meteorological Society
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CP22 (With H.G. Thornton and W.A. Mackenzie) The Accuracy of the Plating Method of Estimating the Density of Bacterial Populations.
Annals of Applied Biology, 9: 325-359 (1922) Reproduced with permission of Annals of Applied Biology. Split into 2 PDF files - part 1 and part 2
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CP23 Statistical Appendix to a Paper by J. Davidson on Biological Studies of Aphis rumicis.
Annals of Applied Biology, 9: 142-145 (1922) Reproduced with permission of Annals of Applied Biology.
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CP31 Statistical Tests of Agreement Between Observation and Hypothesis.
Economica, 3: 139-147 (1923) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers
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CP32 (With W.A. Mackenzie). Studies in Crop Variation. II. The manurial response of different potato varieties.
Journal of Agricultural Science, 13: 311-320 (1923) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP32A [Review of  A Treatise on Probability by J.M. Keynes.]
Eugenics Review, 14: 46-50 (1923)
See also Fisher's Annotations from his review copy of this work.
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CP34 The Conditions Under Which x2 Measures the Discrepancy Between Observation and Hypothesis.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 87: 442-450 (1924) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers
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CP35 The Distribution of the Partial Correlation Coefficient.
Metron, 3: 329-332 (1924) Reproduced with permission of Metron
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CP36 On a Distribution Yielding the Error Functions of Several Well Known Statistics.
Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematics, Toronto, 2: 805-813 (1924)
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CP37 The Influence of Rainfall on the Yield of Wheat at Rothamsted.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: 213: 89-142 (1924) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society. Split into 2 PDF files -Part 1 and part 2
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CP39 The Theory of the Mechanical Analysis of Sediments by Means of the Automatic Balance.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 44: 98-115 (1924) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
1.1M
CP42 Theory of Statistical Estimation.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 22: 700-725 (1925)  Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
1.5M
CP43 Applications of "Student's" Distribution.
Metron, 5: 90-104 (1925) Reproduced with permission of Metron
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CP44 Expansion of "Student's" integral in Powers of n-1.
Metron, 5: 109-120 (1925) Reproduced with permission of Metron
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CP45 Note on the Numerical Evaluation of a Bessel Function Derivative (with P.R. Ansell).
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, 24: liv-lvi (1925) Reproduced with permission of the Society.
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CP46 Calcul de Probabilités. - Sur la solution de l'équation intégrale de M. V. Romanovsky.
Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 181: 88-89 (1925) Reproduced with permission of de l'Académie des Sciences.
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CP48 The Arrangement of Field Experiments.
Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture of Great Britain, 33: 503-513 (1926) Reproduced with permission of H.M.S.O.
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CP49 Bayes' Theorem and the Fourfold Table.
Eugenics Review, 18: 32-33 (1926) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP50 On the Random Sequence.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 52: 250 (1926) Reproduced with permission of The Royal Meteorological Society
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CP56 (With J. Wishart). On the Distribution of the Error of an Interpolated Value, and on the Construction of Tables.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 23: 912-921 (1927) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP58 On the Existence of Daily Changes in the Bacterial Numbers in American Soil.
Soil Science, 23: 253-259 (1927) Reproduced with permission of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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CP61 The General Sampling Distribution of the Multiple Correlation Coefficient.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A: 121: 654-673 (1928) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP62 On a Property Connecting the X2 Measure of Discrepancy with the Method of Maximum Likelihood.
Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici, Bologna, 6: 95-100 (1928)
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CP63 (With L.H.C. Tippett). Limiting Forms of the Frequency Distribution of the Largest of Smallest Member of a Sample.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 24: 180-190 (1928)  Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP67 The Effect of Psychological Card Preferences.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 38: 269-271 (1928). Reproduced with permission of the Society for Psychical Research.
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CP74 Moments and Product Moments of Sampling Distributions.
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, 30: 199-238 (1929). Reproduced with permission of the Society. Split into 2 PDF files.
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CP75 Tests of Significance in Harmonic Analysis.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A: 125: 54-59 (1929) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP76 The Sieve of Eratosthenes.
Mathematical Gazette, 14: 564-566 (1929) Reproduced with permission of The Mathematical Association.
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CP78 (With T. Eden). Studies in Crop Variation. VI. Experiments on the response of the potato to potash and nitrogen.
Journal of Agricultural Science, 19: 201-213 (1929) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP79 The Statistical Method in Psychical Research.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 39: 189-192 (1929). Reproduced with permission of the Society for Psychical Research.
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CP83 The Moments of the Distribution for Normal Samples of Measures of Departure From Normality.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A: 130: 16-28 (1930) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP84 Inverse Probability.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 26: 528-535 (1930)  Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP85 (With J. Wishart). The Arrangement of Field Experiments and the Statistical Reduction of the Results.
Imperial Bureau of Soil Science Technical Communication, 10: 23pp. (1930)
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CP90 The Derivation of the Pattern Formulae of Two-Way Partitions From Those of Simpler Patterns.
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, 33: 195-208 (1931) Reproduced with permission of the Society.
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CP91 The Sampling Error of Estimated Deviates, Together with Other Illustrations of the Properties and Applications of the Integrals and Derivatives of the Normal Error Function.
Mathematical Tables, 1: xxvi-xxxv, British Association for the Advancement of Science (1931) Reproduced with permission of the Association.
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CP92A Principles of Plot Experimentation in relation to the Statistical Interpretation of the Results.
Report of a Conference on The Technique of Field Experiments held at Rothamsted on 7 May, 1931, pp11-13.
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CP95 Inverse Probability and the Use of Likelihood.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 28: 257-261 (1932) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP102 The Concepts of Inverse Probability and Fiducial Probability Referring to Unknown Parameters.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A: 139: 343-348 (1933) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP103 The Contributions of Rothamsted to the Development of the Science of Statistics.
Annual Report Rothamsted Experimental Station, 1933, p. 43-50.
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CP108 Two New Properties of Mathematical Likelihood.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A: 144: 285-307 (1934) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP109 Probability, Likelihood and Quantity of Information in the Logic of Uncertain Inference.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A: 146: 1-8 (1934) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP110 (With F. Yates). The 6 x 6 Latin Squares.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 30: 492-507 (1934) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
1.27M
CP111 Randomisation, and an Old Enigma of Card Play.
Mathematical Gazette, 18: 297-297 (1934) Reproduced with permission of The Mathematical Association.
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CP112 Appendix to a Paper by H.G. Thornton and P.H.H. Gray on the Numbers of Bacterial Cells in Field Soils.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B: 115: 540-542 (1934) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP123 The Mathematical Distributions Used in the Common Tests of Significance.
Econometrica, 3: 353-365 (1935) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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CP124 The Logic of Inductive Inference.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 98: 39-54 (1935) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers

See also the following discussion paper...

Discussion on Professor Fisher's Paper(ie. Logic of Inductive Inference)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 98: 55-82 (1935) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers

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CP125 The Fiducial Argument in Statistical Inference.
Annals of Eugenics, 6: 391-398 (1935) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP126 The Case of Zero Survivors in Probit Assays.
Annals of Applied Biology, 22: 164-165 (1935) Reproduced with permission of Annals of Applied Biology.
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CP128 Contribution to a Discussion of J. Neyman's Paper on Statistical Problems in Agricultural Experimentation (incomplete extract).
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Supp., 2: 154-157, 173 (1935) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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CP129 Contribution to a discussion of F. Yates' Paper on Complex Experiments (incomplete extract). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Supp., 2: 229-231 (1935) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers. 112k
CP137 Uncertain Inference.
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science, 71: 245-258 (1936)
1.4M
CP138 The Use of Multiple Measurements in Taxonomic Problems.
Annals of Eugenics, 7: 179-188 (1936) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP141 "The Coefficient of Racial Likeness" and the Future of Craniometry.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 66:57-63 (1936) Reproduced with permission of The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
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CP148 (With E.A. Cornish)  Moments and Cumulants in the Specification of Distributions.
Revue de l'Institut International de Statistique, 5: 307-320 (1937). Reproduced with permission of the International Statistical Institute
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CP150 (With B. Day). The Comparison of Variability in Populations Having Unequal Means. An example of the analysis of covariance with multiple dependent and independent variates.
Annals of Eugenics, 7: 333-348 (1937) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP151 On a Point Raised by M.S. Bartlett on Fiducial Probability.
Annals of Eugenics, 7: 370-375 (1937) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP155 The Statistical Utilization of Multiple Measurements.
Annals of Eugenics, 8: 376-386 (1938) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP156 Quelques Remarques sur l'estimation en Statistique.
Biotypologie, 6: 153-158 (1938)
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CP157 On the Statistical Treament of the Relation Between Sea-Level Characteristics and High-Altitude Acclimatization.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B: 126: 25-29 (1938) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP162 The Comparison of Samples with Possibly Unequal Variances.
Annals of Eugenics, 9: 174-180 (1939) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP163 The Sampling Distribution of Some Statistics Obtained From Non-linear Equations.
Annals of Eugenics, 9: 238-249 (1939) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
1.15M
CP165 "Student".
Annals of Eugenics, 9: 1-9 (1939) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
912k
CP173 On the Similarity of the Distributions Found For the Test of Significance in Harmonic Analysis...
Annals of Eugenics, 10: 14-17 (1940) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP174 An Examination of the Different Possible Solutions of a Problem in IncompleteBlocks.
Annals of Eugenics, 10: 52-75 (1940) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
1.2M
CP175 The Precision of Discriminant Functions.
Annals of Eugenics, 10: 422-429 (1940) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP181 The Asymptotic Approach to Behren's Integral, with Further Tables for the d Test of Significance.
Annals of Eugenics, 11: 141-172 (1941) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press  Split into 2 PDF files.
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CP182 The Negative Binomial Distribution.
Annals of Eugenics, 11: 182-187 (1941) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP183 The Interpretation of Experimental Four-fold Tables.
Science, 94: 210-211 (1941) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP189 The Theory of Confounding in Factorial Experiments in Relation to the Theory of Groups.
Annals of Eugenics, 11: 341-353 (1942) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP190 Some Combinatorial Theorems and Enumerations Connected with the Numbers of Diagonal Types of a Latin Square.
Annals of Eugenics, 11: 395-401 (1942)  Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP193 A Theoretical Distribution for the Apparent Abundance of Different Species. Journal of Animal Ecology, 12: 54-58 (1943) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science 952k
CP194 Note on Dr. Berkson's Criticism of Tests of Significance.
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 38: 103-104 (1943) Reproduced with permission of The American Statistical Association
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CP195 The Therapeutic Use of Vitamin C.
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 83: 251-252 (1944) Reproduced with permission of the Journal of the Royal Army Corps 
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CP202 A System of Confounding for Factors with More Than Two Alternatives, Giving Completely Orthogonal Cubes and Higher Powers.
Annals of Eugenics, 12: 283-290 (1945) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
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CP203 The Logical Inversion of the Notion of the Random Variable.
Sankhyâ, 7: 129-132 (1945). Reproduced with permission of Sankhyâ.
248k
CP204 Recent Progress in Experimental Design.
In L'application du Calcul des Probabilités, 19-31 (1945)
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CP205 A New Test for 2 x 2 Tables.
Nature, 156: 388 (1945)
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CP211 The analysis of Covariance Method for the Relation Between a Part and the Whole.
Biometrics, 3: 65-68 (1947) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society
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CP212 Development of the Theory of Experimental Design.
Proceedings of the International Statistical Conferences, (Washington), 3: 434-439 (1947) Reproduced with permission of  the International Statistical Institute
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CP222 Conclusions fiduciaires.
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 10: 191-213 (1948)
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CP223 Calcul de Probabilités. - Un résultat assez inattendu d'arithmétique des lois de probabilité.
Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 227: 1205-1206 (1948) Reproduced with permission of de l'Académie des Sciences.
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CP224 Biometry.
Biometrics, 4: 217-219 (1948) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society.
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CP224A Answer to Question 14 on Combining independent tests of significance.
The American Statistician, 2: 30 (1948)
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CP230 A Biological Assay of Tuberculins.
Biometrics, 5: 300-316 (1949) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society
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CP236 The Significance of Deviations From Expectation in a Poisson Series.
Biometrics, 6: 17-24 (1950) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society
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CP242 Statistics.
In Scientific Thought in the Twentieth Century, (ed. A.E. Heath), p. 31-55. London : Watts, 1951.
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CP242A Answer to Query 91 on interaction of quantity and quality in agricultural field trials.
Biometrics, 7: 433-434 (1951) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society.
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CP247 Sequential Experimentation.
Biometrics, 8: 183-187 (1952) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society
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CP249 Dispersion on a Sphere.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A: 217: 295-305 (1953) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
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CP250 Note on the Efficient Fitting of the Negative Binomial.
Biometrics, 9: 197-199 (1953) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society.
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CP251 The Expansion of Statistics.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A, 116: 1-6 (1953); reprinted in American Scientist, 42: 275-282. Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers and the Scientific Research Society.
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CP256 The Analysis of Variance with Various Binomial Transformations.
Biometrics, 10: 130-139 (1954) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society.
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CP261 Contribution to a Discussion of a Paper on Interval Estimation by M.A. Creasy.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 16: 212-213 (1954). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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CP261A Answer to Query 114 on the effect of errors of grouping in an analysis of variance.
Biometrics, 11:237 (1955)
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CP264 On a Test of Significance in Pearson's Biometrika Tables (No. 11).
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 18: 56-60 (1956). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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CP265 New Tables of Behrens' Test of Significance.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 18: 212-216 (1956). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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CP267 The Underworld of Probability.
Sankhyâ, 18: 201-210 (1957). Reproduced with permission of Sankhyâ.
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CP268 Comment on the Notes by Neyman, Bartlett, and Welch ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 19: 179 (1957). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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CP272 The Nature of Probability.
Centennial Review, 2: 261-274 (1958)
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CP273 Mathematical Probability in the Natural Sciences.
Technometrics, 1: 21-29 (1959). Reproduced with permission of Technometrics and the American Statistical Association.
1.14M
CP274 Cigarettes, cancer, and statistics.
Centennial Review, 2: 151-166 (1958)
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CP281 (With E.A. Cornish) The Percentile Points of Distributions Having Known Cumulants.
Technometrics, 2: 209-225 (1960). Reproduced with permission of Technometrics and the American Statistical Association.
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CP282 Scientific Thought and the Refinement of Human Reasoning.
Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, 3: 1-10 (1960) Reproduced with permission of the Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan.
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CP283 On Some Extensions of Bayesian Inference Proposed by Mr. Lindley.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 22: 299-301 (1960). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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CP284 Sampling the Reference Set.
Sankhyâ, 23: 3-8 (1961). Reproduced with permission of Sankhyâ.
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CP285 The Weighted Mean of Two Normal Samples with Unknown Variance Ratio.
Sankhyâ, 23: 103-114 (1961). Reproduced with permission of Sankhyâ.
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CP289 The Simultaneous Distribution of Correlation Coefficients.
Sankhyâ, 24: 1-8 (1962). Reproduced with permission of Sankhyâ.
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CP290 The Place of the Design of Experiments in the Logic of Scientific Inference.
Colloq. Int. Cent. Nat. Recherche Scientifique, Paris, No. 110: 13-19.
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CP291 Confidence Limits for a Cross-Product Ratio.
Australian Journal of Statistics, 4: 41 (1962). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishers.
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