Statistical Methods for Research Workers

Statistical Methods for Research Workers is a classic book on statistics, written by the statistician R. A. Fisher. It is considered by some^[who?] to be one of the 20th century's most influential books on statistical methods, together with his The Design of Experiments (1935). It was originally published in 1925, by Oliver & Boyd (Edinburgh); the final and posthumous 14th edition was published in 1970. The impulse to write a book on the statistical methodology he had developed came not from Fisher himself but from D. Ward Cutler, one of the two editors of a series of "Biological Monographs and Manuals" being published by Oliver and Boyd.

According to Denis Conniffe:

According to Erich L. Lehmann:

• Prefaces

1. Introduction
2. Diagrams
3. Distributions
4. Tests of Goodness of Fit, Independence and Homogeneity; with table of χ²
5. Tests of Significance of Means, Difference of Means, and Regression Coefficients
6. The Correlation Coefficient
7. Intraclass Correlations and the Analysis of Variance
8. Further Applications of the Analysis of Variance

• SOURCES USED FOR DATA AND METHODS INDEX

In the second edition of 1928 a chapter 9 was added: The Principles of Statistical Estimation.

• The Design of Experiments

• The March 1951 issue of the Journal of the American Statistical Association contains articles celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first edition.
• A.W.F. Edwards (2005) "R. A. Fisher, Statistical Methods for Research Workers, 1925," in I. Grattan-Guinness (ed) Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics: Case Studies, 1640-1940, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Savage, Leonard J. (1976). "On Rereading R. A. Fisher". Annals of Statistics. 4 (3): 441–500. doi:10.1214/aos/1176343456.

• Nature anonymous review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods [1]
• BMJ anonymous review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods [2]
• Student’s review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods
• Egon Pearson’s reviews of Fisher’s Statistical Methods
• Harold Hotelling’s review of Fishers’ Statistical Methods
• Leon Isserlis’s review of Fishers’ Statistical Methods
• W. P. Elderton’sreview of Fisher’s Statistical Methods

• Text of first edition
• The 14th edition (prepared from notes left by Fisher when he died in 1962) is reprinted as the first part of Statistical Methods, Experimental Design and Scientific Inference