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Country USA Publication date 2001 Pages 352 pages Originally published 2001 Publisher Henry Holt and Company | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (paperback) ISBN 0-8050-7134-2 Subject Statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre History of science and technology Preceded by The use of restricted significance tests in clinical trials Similar The use of restricted significan, Statistics for toxicologists, Understanding randomness, Love Poems to Fran, PCK and Teaching Innovations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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".
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