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What used to be called judgment is now called prejudice, and what used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

A. W. F. Edwards

There comes a time in the life of a scientist when he must convince himself either that his subject is so robust from a statistical point of view that the finer points of statistical inference he adopts are irrelevant or that the precise mode of inference he adopts is satisfactory.

A. W. F. Edwards

A. W. F. Edwards

A. W. F. Edwards

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Born: October 4, 1935 (age 89)

Bio: Anthony William Fairbank Edwards is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called "Fisher's Edwards" because he was mentored by Ronald Fisher.

Known for:

Cogwheels of the Mind (2004)
Pascal's arithmetical triangle (1987)
Foundations of mathematical genetics (1977)
Nashville Interiors, 1866 to 1922 (1999)
Likelihood (1972)

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