R.A.Fisher, design theory, and the Indian connection
Biological Physics
2017-02-14 v1 Statistics Theory
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Populations and Evolution
Statistics Theory
Abstract
Design Theory, a branch of mathematics, was born out of the experimental statistics research of the population geneticist R. A. Fisher and of Indian mathematical statisticians in the 1930s. The field combines elements of combinatorics, finite projective geometries, Latin squares, and a variety of further mathematical structures, brought together in surprising ways. This essay will present these structures and ideas as well as how the field came together, in itself an interesting story.
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@article{arxiv.0910.4163,
title = {R.A.Fisher, design theory, and the Indian connection},
author = {A. R. P. Rau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4163},
year = {2017}
}
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11 pages, 3 figures