Abstract
It is a great honour and pleasure for me to have been elected to the President of the JSS and to deliver the presidential address here today. Especially this year happens to be the 50-th anniversary of the JSS. The JSS has been playing a central role in promoting the statistical activities in Japan and I realize that the responsibilities of the President of the JSS have become heavier than before now. I can only say that I will try my best in such a way that your trust put upon me is not so grotesquely misplaced.
Now since I myself have been puzzled by The Fisher Randomization from the very beginning when I started to learn the modern statistics around 1944 and I have been working on the subject since 1959, I thought that it is an appropriate topic on which I shall talk about as my presidential address.
My talk consists of two parts: Part I will be devoted to a historical perspective in which I shall summarize what happened about the randomization as I see it and clarify my own standpoint about the randomization. Part II will be devoted to “The Fisher-Student Controversy on The Randomization”. There has never been given a comprehensive settlement of the famous controversy, so far as I am aware of. I hope that I can give a comprehensive settlement of the controversy based on the Barbacki-Fisher paper [10] from my own standpoint.
