Jerzy Neyman: A Positive Role Model in the History of Frequentist Statistics

Many of the facts in this blog post come from the biography ‘Neyman’ by Constance Reid . I highly recommend reading this book if you find this blog interesting. In recent years researchers have become increasingly interested in the relationship between eugenics and statistics, especially focusing on the lives of Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and Ronald Fisher. Some have gone as far as to argue for a causal relationship between eugenics and frequentist statistics. For example, in a recent book ‘