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 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 340 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 0716741067
Release Date: Jan 3, 2001
| |  | | | In Brief
In The Lady Tasting Tea, David Salsburg tells the fascinating story of how statistics has revolutionized science in the twentieth century. Leading the reader through a maze of randomness and probability, the author clearly explains the nature of statistical models, where they came from, how they are applied to scientific problems, and whether they are true descriptions of reality. Salsburg also discusses the flaws inherent in a statistical model and the serious problems they've created for scientists as we enter the twenty-first century.
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An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world.
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. 11 b&w illustrations]]>
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...nature of statistical models, where they came from, how they are applied to scientific problems, and whether they are true descriptions of reality...
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David Salsburg is a retired pharmaceutical company statistician and currently works as a private consultant. He has been a member of the American Statistics Association since 1964 and has taught at Harvard, Connecticut College, the University of Connecticut, the University of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island College, and Trinity College. During his latter years of teaching, Salsburg became Senior Research Fellow at Pfizer, Inc., in the Central Research Department.
| |  | | | | Author's Preface | VII | | Chapter 1 | The Lady Tasting Tea | 1 | | Chapter 2 | The Skew Distributions | 9 | | Chapter 3 | That Dear Mr. Gosset | 25 | | Chapter 4 | Raking Over the Muck Heap | 33 | | Chapter 5 | "Studies in Crop Variation" | 41 | | Chapter 6 | "The Hundred-Year Flood" | 53 | | Chapter 7 | Fisher Triumphant | 61 | | Chapter 8 | The Dose that Kills | 73 | | Chapter 9 | The Bell-Shaped Curve | 83 | | Chapter 10 | Testing the Goodness of Fit | 93 | | Chapter 11 | Hypothesis Testing | 107 | | Chapter 12 | The Confidence Trick | 117 | | Chapter 13 | The Bayesian Heresy | 125 | | Chapter 14 | The Mozart of Mathematics | 137 | | Chapter 15 | The Worm's-Eye View | 151 | | Chapter 16 | Doing Away with Parameters | 161 | | Chapter 17 | When Part is Better than the Whole | 169 | | Chapter 18 | Does Smoking Cause Cancer? | 181 | | Chapter 19 | If You Want the Best Person... | 195 | | Chapter 20 | Just a Plain Texas Farm Boy | 207 | | Chapter 21 | A Genius in the Family | 217 | | Chapter 22 | The Picasso of Statistics | 229 | | Chapter 23 | Dealing with Contamination | 237 | | Chapter 24 | The Man Who Remade Industry | 247 | | Chapter 25 | Advice from the Lady in Black | 257 | | Chapter 26 | The March of the Martingales | 267 | | Chapter 27 | The Intent to Treat | 275 | | Chapter 28 | The Computer Turns upon Itself | 285 | | Chapter 29 | The Idol with Feet of Clay | 293 | | Afterword | 311 | | Timeline | 313 | | Bibliography | 317 | | Index | 327 |
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