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• Title:The lady tasting tea : how statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century / David Salsburg.
  
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• Author/Creator:Salsburg, David, 1931-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Henry Holt, 2002, ©2001.
  
• HoldingsNo holdings available. 
• Library of Congress Subjects:Science--Statistical methods--History--20th century.
  
• Medical Subjects: Science
  History, 20th Century
  Statistics as Topic
  
• Edition:1st Holt Paperbacks ed.
  
• Description:xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:"A W.H. Freeman / Holt Paperback."
  Includes bibliographical references ([pages 317]-326 and index.
  
• ISBN:0805071342
  9780805071344
  
• 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.