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The quantum version of an object named for this person is defined with the symmetric logarithmic derivative. A matrix named for this person is used as the metric in information geometry, and the Jeffreys prior (10[1])is proportional to the square-root of the determinant of that matrix. This person names a quantity equal to the variance of the score function, the reciprocal of which appears in the Cramér–Rao bound. The degree to which unknown parameters of a probability distribution can be determined by observations is measured by this person’s namesake “information.” (10[1])A statistic named for this person is the ratio of variation between groups to variation within groups. (-5[1])This developer of ANOVA introduced the concepts of p-value and hypothesis testing. (10[1])For 10 points, name this British statistician and geneticist who names the F-test. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Ronald Fisher [accept Fisher information matrix]
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