Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

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. Examines the works of statistics pioneer Ronald Fisher as well as other revolutionary thinkers in the field, covering the rise and fall of Karl Pearson''s theories, the methods that contributed to Japan''s post-war rebuilding, a pivotal early study on a Guinness beer cask, and more. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

• | Author: David Salsburg
• | Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2002
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780805071344
• | ISBN-10: 0805071342