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Although he was successful at Cambridge, he had
not yet found his vocation in life, though he was interested in mathematical
physics. He also attened one lecture on statistics by G Udny Yule. He read
at this time Karl Pearson's Mathematical Contributions ot the Theory of
Evolution. Shortly before the War in 1914, Fisher first came into contact
with Karl Pearson. About 1915 he was offered 2 jobs. One was the post of
chief statistition under Karl Pearson at the illustrious Galton Laboratory,
and the other was for the Rothamsted experimental agricultural sation with
the opportunity for building up a statistical laboratory. Fisher
unhesitatingly accepted Rothamsted. At Rothamsted he found his real vocation
in life. He continued his work on sampling distributions, and in
1921completed the classic memoir on Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical
Statistics which was intended to supply the framework of current statistical
theory. The z-test of significance and the arithmetic procedure known as the
analysis of variance, ANOVA.. Statistical Methods for Reseach Workers was
first published in 1925. |