Sewall Wright

Thinkers1889 to 1988Geneticist and statistician

Works

  • Correlation and Causation, Journal of Agricultural Research 20, 1921

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An American geneticist, a founder of population genetics, who invented path analysis, one of the first methods to represent assumed causal relations among variables as a diagram of arrows. It is a precursor of today's causal graphs.

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