The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salsburg
How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
A lively, anecdote-rich history of how modern statistics was born and evolved, profiling the thinkers and controversies that created tools like experimental design, hypothesis testing, and estimation. Drawing on stories from agricultural trials, medical studies and industrial quality control, it explains the ideas and disputes that shaped statistical methods and shows how statistical thinking transformed scientific practice. Along the way it humanizes figures who argued about chance, inference, and evidence, making technical concepts accessible and demonstrating their lasting impact on how we interpret data.
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- 2001
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