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THE first morning of the British Association meeting at Cambridge saw a discussion in Section A* (Mathematics), of exceptionally wide interest to workers in experimental science. The five speakers, three American and two English, had all in recent years engaged in the study of the combinatorial problems underlying modern types of experimental design, aimed at eliminating errors due to heterogeneity of material, and at founding inferences on valid tests of significance.
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FISHER, R. The Mathematics of Experimentation. Nature 142, 442–443 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142442a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142442a0