R.A. Fisher and the making of maximum likelihood 1912-1922

John Aldrich

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In 1922 R. A. Fisher introduced the method of maximum likelihood. He first presented the numerical procedure in 1912. This paper considers Fisher's changing justifications for the method, the concepts he developed around it (including likelihood, sufficiency, efficiency and information) and the approaches he discarded (including inverse probability).

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1920NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF CORRELATION 1892The Grammar of Science 1978R. A. Fisher, the Life of a Scientist 1897On the Theory of Correlation 1979Fisher, the life of a scientist.1981Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930 1990‘Student’1990Statistical Inference and Analysis

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