Who Invented Hypothesis Testing?

In the 1920s, Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher
His contributions to statistics include promoting the method of maximum likelihood and deriving the properties of maximum likelihood estimators, fiducial inference, the derivation of various sampling distributions, founding principles of the design of experiments, and much more.
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developed the theory behind the p value and Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson developed the theory of hypothesis testing.

Who is known as the father of null hypothesis?

For many students, statistics is a troublesome subject, and the root of that trouble can be traced to the concept of the null hypothesis. ... The first hypothesis test (or significance test) is often attributed to John Arbuthnot in 1710, physician to Queen Anne of England, and satirical writer.

Who invented null hypothesis significance testing?

Neyman & Pearson (1933) proposed a framework of statistical inference for applied decision making and quality control. In such framework, two hypotheses are proposed: the null hypothesis of no effect and the alternative hypothesis of an effect, along with a control of the long run probabilities of making errors.

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