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

Contents......Page __sk_0005.djvu
Author's Preface......Page __sk_0007.djvu
1 The Lady Tasting Tea......Page __sk_0013.djvu
2 The Skew Distributions......Page __sk_0021.djvu
3 That Dear Mr. Gosset......Page __sk_0037.djvu
4 Raking Over the Muck Heap......Page __sk_0045.djvu
5 "Studies in Crop Variation"......Page __sk_0053.djvu
6 "The Hundred-Year Flood"......Page __sk_0065.djvu
7 Fisher Triumphant......Page __sk_0073.djvu
8 The Dose That Kills......Page __sk_0085.djvu
9 The Bell-Shaped Curve......Page __sk_0095.djvu
10 Testing the Goodness of Fit......Page __sk_0105.djvu
11 Hypothesis Testing......Page __sk_0119.djvu
12 The Confidence Trick......Page __sk_0129.djvu
13 The Bayesian Heresy......Page __sk_0137.djvu
14 The Mozart of Mathematics......Page __sk_0149.djvu
15 The Worm's-Eye View......Page __sk_0163.djvu
16 Doing Away with Parameters......Page __sk_0173.djvu
17 When Part Is Better Than the Whole......Page __sk_0181.djvu
18 Does Smoking Cause Cancer?......Page __sk_0193.djvu
19 If You Want the Best Person......Page __sk_0207.djvu
20 Just a Plain Texas Farm Boy......Page __sk_0219.djvu
21 A Genius in the Family......Page __sk_0229.djvu
22 The Picasso of Statistics......Page __sk_0241.djvu
23 Dealing with Contamination......Page __sk_0249.djvu
24 The Man Who Remade Industry......Page __sk_0259.djvu
25 Advice From the Lady in Black......Page __sk_0269.djvu
26 The March of the Martingales......Page __sk_0279.djvu
27 The Intent to Treat......Page __sk_0287.djvu
28 The Computer Turns Upon Itself......Page __sk_0297.djvu
29 The Idol with Feet of Clay......Page __sk_0305.djvu
Afterword......Page __sk_0323.djvu
Timeline......Page __sk_0325.djvu
Bibliography......Page __sk_0329.djvu
Index......Page __sk_0339.djvu