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

It is easy to read a kind of novel that describes the evolution of the statistics during the 19th century via the life and the achievements of the most important scientists of the area. Excellent book

I love to know about the persons and the situations "behind" statistical findings, and I can use the stories in my teaching.

Interesting book; brings all the great names to life. Makes you think about things we consider settled, but are not so sure at all.

Any book which can make statistics theory entertaining deserves my positive vote.Excellent little, I suggest it to novice and also experts.

Excellent! Got it on time

Why is Amazon selling this book at 50% ABOVE the RRP? Whatever happened to this "discount" bookseller? I am very disappointed with this.

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Probability is something that affects us all these days, if you've ever filled in a credit application you will have been scored using a statistical process according to the information you fill in. Although we like to think of ourselves as individuals, our behaviour as a group, on average, is quite predictable. So what is statistically significant? This book will tell you, without blinding you with science or bogging you down with equations. The anecdotes are quite interesting and the history of statistics is presented quite well. You won't learn enough to go out and get a number crunching job but you might be a bit more sceptical the next time you read statistics presented in the mass media. For the intelligent lay person who wants to be better informed about probability and statistics this is a useful introduction.

A book full of history of statistics in the last century

All great statisticians stories and interesting incident of from their life is given great a very interesting way. Once you hold it in hand you are not going leave before its completion.Warning: This book is only for data science enthusiast.

I loved reading this book. I am a scientist, but not a statistician, although I do use some statistical tools in my work. I was afraid this book would be too technical, because let's face it, statisticians tend to write "introductions" that are anything but. However, I was pleasantly surprised by "The Lady Tasting Tea", and I wholeheartedly recommend it. It reads just like a novel, it is entertaining, fascinating, linked to examples of applications. It did widen my outlook on statistical methods available to me and the scientific community, and placed some techniques I have been using in their general context.

Interesantisimo. Muy bien redactado, explica el trasfondo de muchas "normas" de la estadistica que no merecen ser tales. Parece ser que a algunos matematicos se les ha dado por extrapolar resultados de pruebas muy restringidas como si fueran aplicables en todos. Los resultados de las observaciones en la vida real no tienen una distribusion simetrica, ergo la exigencia de cumplir con un 5% de probabilidad no tiene fundamento.

The book has been written in a quite interesting way that really motivates a person to continue reading and enjoy it. It tells the story behind each statistical method or concept, the reason of why and how do they develop, etc. I really like the book and recommend it to whom loves statistics (even if like me is not a statistian).