Sashank Varma

Sep 5, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sashank Varma |Shrikant Bangdiwala

1 BACKGROUND Statistical tests of significance were developed at the beginning of the 20th century by the Polish mathematician Jerzy Neyman and the British statistician Egon Pearson in 1933.1 Years before, in 1900, Karl Pearson introduced the concept of the p-value for his chi-squared test.2 However, it was British geneticist and statistician Ronald Aylmer Fisher who popularized these methods in his influential book Statistical Methods for Research Workers.3 In a letter in Nature, Fisher...