STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS
ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
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Charles Darwin
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Karl Pearson
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Ronald A. Fisher
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Ronald Fisher pioneered the development of ANOVA for analyzing results of agricultural experiments. 1 Today, ANOVA is included in almost every statistical package, which makes it accessible to investigators in all experimental sciences.
Detailed explanation-2: -In statistics, Fisher laid the foundation of statistical inference, invented experimental design, randomization, ANOVA, etc. The first edition of “Statistical Methods for Research Workers” appeared in 1925.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term was introduced by Sir Ronald Fisher in 1918. A measure of the total variability in a set of data is given by the sum of squared differences of the observations from their overall mean. This is the total sum of squares (TSS).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Analysis of Variance or ANOVA is a statistical test developed by Ronald Fisher in 1918.