Sir RA Fisher - British Geneticist

 

Fisher was a British Geneticist and co-founder of classical statistical genetics. His major contributions are 

1) Experimental designs 

2) Analysis of variance 

3) Exact test of significance for small samples

4)  Test of maximum Likelyhood

    He focussed especially on the problems of biological research, small samples, variable material and fluctuating environment. He showed how to design experiments to get maximum information in biological research. In 1918 Fisher provided the initial frame of biometrics for the study of Quantitative  Genetics. He also partitioned the genetic variance into additive, dominance and epistatic components

 His important books are 

1) Statistical methods for research workers

2) Genetical theory of natural selection

3) Statistical methods and scientific inference

4) Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical

 5) Research designs of experiments