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Sewall Wright did not develop the F statistic. R.A. Fischer developed the F statistic and was later knighted by the queen. (Sir Walter Bodmer, Hertford College, Catte Street, Oxford OX1 3BW, RA Fisher, statistician and geneticist extraordinary: a personal view).
- User Jgirl777 added the above text to "See also" in the article in these two edits. I have moved it from the article to here for consideration on what changes should occur in the article. Johnuniq (talk) 05:22, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
- Sewell Wright did publish a series of papers in 1922 starting with Coefficients of inbreeding and relationship (American Naturalist 56, 330–338), to which he gave the letter F in the equations. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:02, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- R.A. Fischer developed the F statistic as in the F-test used in the Analysis of Variance framework. The F statistics from Wright metioned here are the Fixation indices Fst, Fis and Fit... Bigfootpegrande —Preceding undated comment added 12:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)