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As Fisher himself suggests, the 1925 paper [CP 42] is a compact refinement of the 1922 paper [CF 18]. It is short, sometimes terse, but monumental in concept. It was, I believe, largely ignored for more than thirty years.
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Hinkley, D. (1980). Theory of Statistical Estimation: The 1925 Paper. In: Fienberg, S.E., Hinkley, D.V. (eds) R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6079-0_10
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