For those who haven’t already done so, check out the Great Men section of links on the right hand side of the page.
Razib has just added a link for Francis Galton. The link is to Gavan Tredoux’s remarkable Galton website. Among other goodies, this includes free downloadable PDF files of virtually all Galton’s books and hundreds of papers, many of which are extremely rare and inaccessible. (Galton’s works were never published in a collected edition.)
I also checked out the link for R. A. Fisher, which links to the University of Adelaide Library, which has the world’s greatest archive of Fisher material. I was delighted to see that they are providing PDFs of Fisher’s major papers in genetics and statistics. (Unlike Galton’s papers, Fisher’s have been published in a collected edition, but you will only find it in good academic libraries.)
Some day I hope to understand what, if anything, Fisher meant by fiducial inference, but it’s a bit like learning German: every time I think I’m getting it, it slips away again.
Posted by David B at 02:38 AM