ABSTRACT
My reason for including this last section is to set the classic inferential, what may be called Fisherian (after the eminent statistician R.A.Fisher) hypothesis testing approach in the context of modern day use of statistics. The statistics of random sampling, survey and experimental design, probability theory, formal inference and test statistics, are what I call here, the Fisherian approach. The importance of this approach as Bartholomew (1995) notes is that much could be learned from little data provided attention was given to well designed studies. For this reason alone it is important that researchers should understand and be familiar with the Fisherian approach to statistical design and analysis and the debate that surrounds the different schools of inference.
