{"title":"R. A. Fisher—twice Professor of Genetics: London and Cambridge, or‘A fairly well-known geneticist’","authors":"A. W. F. Edwards","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00361","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Summary.</b> Fisher held in succession the two senior chairs of genetics in Great Britain, the Galton Professorship at University College London (1933–1943) and the Arthur Balfour Professorship at Cambridge (1943–1957), yet his fame as a statistician is such that his contributions to genetics and evolutionary biology are not well known in statistical circles. In the paper his genetical work, and that of his colleagues, is summarized, and his influence in evolutionary biology, especially through <i>The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection</i> (1930), is sketched.</p>","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"311-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00361","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72323025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simplicity, Inference and Modelling","authors":"Fernando Tusell","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00369_27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72322682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymptotic Theory of Statistical Inference for Time Series","authors":"Theofanis Sapatinas","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00369_25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"420-421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_25","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72322684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"R. A. Fisher the statistician","authors":"M. J. R. Healy","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00360","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Summary.</b> The paper discusses the contribution of R. A. Fisher to the theory and practice of statistics and tries to place these in their historical context.</p>","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"303-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72322681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonsensical and biased correlation due to pooling heterogeneous samples","authors":"Uwe Hassler, Thorsten Thadewald","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00365","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Summary.</b> The case of two variables is considered, where the sample consists of two heterogeneous groups. The behaviour of the pooled sample correlation coefficient is studied. The heterogeneity of the two groups may be interpreted as a hidden qualitative variable. It is shown that, even if the correlation is the same within both groups, the pooled correlation coefficient may be severely biased owing to heterogeneity of other group-specific parameters. In the case of uncorrelatedness, nonsensical correlation may arise from pooled estimation. These and further results are obtained and can be quantified or forecast from an asymptotic formula for the pooled sample correlation coefficient, which is well reproduced in finite sample computer experiments and illustrated with empirical examples.</p>","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"367-379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72323038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistical Concepts: a Second Course for Education and the Behavioral Sciences","authors":"Nick Sofroniou","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00369_18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72322679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fisher the evolutionary biologist","authors":"Alan Grafen","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00362","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Summary.</b> Fisher's pioneering work in linking Darwinism and Mendelism is now built into biology, but the result that he viewed as holding the ‘supreme position in biology’, the fundamental theorem of natural selection, has a more chequered history. Recent work has shown the theorem to be true, despite many earlier refutations, but its interpretation has been in doubt. I defend Fisher's own evaluation of its significance and argue that it shows that non-random gene frequency changes are always adaptive, and that adaptation arises only through gene frequency changes: this <i>is</i> Fisher's ‘genetical theory of natural selection’.</p>","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"319-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00362","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72322680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cluster Analysis","authors":"Gillian M. Arnold","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00369_8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"407-408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72323028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistics at Square One","authors":"Freda Kemp","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00369_24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00369_24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72323030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simple characterizations of Student's t2-distribution","authors":"V. B. Nevzorov, N. Balakrishnan, M. Ahsanullah","doi":"10.1111/1467-9884.00367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00367","url":null,"abstract":"Some simple properties of the regression function φ(x) = E(X‖M n = x), where X and M n are the sample mean and median respectively, are shown to characterize Student's t 2 -distribution.","PeriodicalId":100846,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician)","volume":"52 3","pages":"395-400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-9884.00367","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72323034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}