The Lady Tasting Tea How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century 1st Edition by David Salsburg ISBN 0805071342 9780805071344

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ISBN 10: 0805071342

ISBN 13: 9780805071344 

Author: David Salsburg 

An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to look at the world in a new way.

At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one man, Ronald Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the hypothesis. There is no better person to conduct such an experiment, for Fisher is a pioneer in the field of statistics.

The Lady Tasting Tea spotlights not only Fisher’s theories but also the revolutionary ideas of dozens of men and women which affect our modern everyday lives. Writing with verve and wit, David Salsburg traces breakthroughs ranging from the rise and fall of Karl Pearson’s theories to the methods of quality control that rebuilt postwar Japan’s economy, including a pivotal early study on the capacity of a small beer cask at the Guinness brewing factory. Brimming with intriguing tidbits and colorful characters, The Lady Tasting Tea salutes the spirit of those who dared to look at the world in a new way.

Table of contents:

ch. 1. The lady tasting tea
ch. 2. The skew distributions
ch. 3. That dear Mr. Gosset
ch. 4. Raking over the muck heap
ch. 5. “Studies in crop variation”
ch. 6. “The hundred-year flood”
ch. 7. Fisher triumphant
ch. 8. The dose that kills
ch. 9. The bell-shaped curve
ch. 10. Testing the goodness of fit
ch. 11. Hypothesis testing
ch. 12. The confidence trick
ch. 13. The Bayesian heresy
ch. 14. The Mozart of mathematics
ch. 15. The worm’s-eye view
ch. 16. Doing away with parameters
ch. 17. When part is better than the whole
ch. 18. Does smoking cause cancer
ch. 19. If you want the best person
ch. 20. Just a plain Texas farm boy
ch. 21. A genius in the family
ch. 22. The Picasso of statistics
ch. 23. Dealing with contamination
ch. 24. The man who remade industry
ch. 25. Advice from the lady in black
ch. 26. The march of the Martingales
ch. 27. The computer turns upon itself
ch. 29. The idol with feet of clay

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