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Mendel's pea crosses: varieties, traits and statistics.
Hereditas - 1 Jan 2019
Ellis T H Noel, Hofer Julie M I, Swain Martin T, van Dijk Peter J
Abstract excerpt
A controversy arose over Mendel's pea crossing experiments after the statistician R.A. Fisher proposed how these may have been performed and criticised Mendel's interpretation of his data. Here we re-examine Mendel's experiments and investigate Fisher's statistical criticisms of bias. We describe pea varieties available in Mendel's time and show that these could readily provide all the material Mendel needed for...
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