RECONSIDERING THE FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF FISHER AND NEYMAN ON EXPERIMENTATION AND SAMPLING

R.A. Fisher and Jerzy Neyman are commonly acknowledged as the statisti cians who provided the basic ideas that underpin the design of experim ents and the design of sample surveys, respectively. In this paper, we reconsider the key contributions of these great men to the two areas of research. We also explain how the controversy surrounding Neyman's 1935 paper on agricultural experimentation in effect led to a split in research on experiments and on sample surveys.