The Lady Tasting Tea

The Lady Tasting Tea
2001 paperback edition
Author David Salsburg
Country USA
Language English
Subject Statistics
Genre History of science and technology
Publisher Henry Holt and Company
Publication date
 2001
Media type Print (paperback)
Pages 352 pages
ISBN 0-8050-7134-2
Preceded by The Use Of Restricted Significance Tests In Clinical Trials
Followed by Love Poems to Fran

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century ( ISBN 0-8050-7134-2) is a book by David Salsburg about the history of modern statistics and the role it played in the development of science and industry.[1][2]

The title comes from the "lady tasting tea", an example from the famous book, The Design of Experiments, by Ronald A. Fisher. Regarding Fisher's example, the statistician Debabrata Basu wrote that "the famous case of the 'lady tasting tea'" was "one of the two supporting pillars [...] of the randomization analysis of experimental data".[3]

References

  1. ↑ Mehlman, Marc H. (2003-03-22). "The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salsburg". The MAA Online book review column. The Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
  2. ↑ Morgan, Peter (2002-09-17). "The Left Atrium". Canadian Medical Association Journal. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
  3. ↑ Page 575 in:
    • Basu, D. (Sep 1980). "Randomization Analysis of Experimental Data: The Fisher Randomization Test". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75 (371): 575–582. doi:10.2307/2287648. JSTOR 2287648.
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