Fisher is the single most important figure in 20th century
statistics. This talk examines his influence on modern statistical thinking,
trying to predict how Fisherian we can expect the 21st century to be.
Fisher's philosophy is characterized as a series of shrewd compromises
between the Bayesian and frequentist viewpoints, augmented by some unique
characteristics that are particularly useful in applied problems. Several
current research topics are examined with an eye toward Fisherian influence, or
the lack of it, and what this portends for future statistical developments.
Based on the 1996 Fisher lecture, the article closely follows the text of that
talk.
Publié le : 1998-05-14
Classification:
Statistical inference,
Bayes,
frequentist,
fiducial,
empirical Bayes,
model selection,
bootstrap,
confidence intervals
@article{1028905930,
author = {Efron, Bradley},
title = {R. A. Fisher in the 21st century (Invited paper presented at the
1996 R. A. Fisher Lecture)},
journal = {Statist. Sci.},
volume = {13},
number = {4},
year = {1998},
pages = { 95-122},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1028905930}
}
Efron, Bradley. R. A. Fisher in the 21st century (Invited paper presented at the
1996 R. A. Fisher Lecture). Statist. Sci., Tome 13 (1998) no. 4, pp. 95-122. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1028905930/