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Statistics Books (Study Guide): The Doctrine of Chances, the Lady Tasting Tea, a Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

Statistics Books (Study Guide): The Doctrine of Chances, the Lady Tasting Tea, a Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates


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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Doctrine of Chances, the Lady Tasting Tea, a Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates, Statistical Methods for Research Workers, How to Lie With Statistics, Innumeracy, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, the Design of Experiments. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: 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, Statistical methods for research workers, by Ronald A. Fisher. Regarding Fisher's example, the statistician D. 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." At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a lady states that tea poured into milk tastes differently than that of milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one guest, by the name Ronald Aylmer Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the lady's hypothesis. There was no better person to conduct such a test, for Fisher had brought to the field of statistics an emphasis on controlling the methods for obtaining data and the importance of interpretation. He knew that how the data was gathered and applied was as important as the data themselves.In The Lady Tasting Tea, readers will encounter not only R.A. Fisher's theories (and their repercussions), but the ideas of dozens of men and women whose revolutionary work affects our everyday lives. Salsburg traces the rise and fall of Karl Pearson's theories, explores W. Edward...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=292256


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157155201
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: The Doctrine of Chances, the Lady Tasting Tea, a Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1157155200
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 54 gr


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