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The Lady Tasting Tea

How Statistics

Revolutionized Science

in the

Twentieth Century

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motionBoyles laws of gases

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Chapter 01 The Lady Tasting Tea
Chapter 02 The Skew Distribution
Chapter 03 That Dear Mr. Gosset
Chapter 04 Raking Over the Muck Heap
Chapter 05 Studies in Crop Variation
Chapter 06 The Hundred-Year Flood
Chapter 07 Fisher Triumphant
Chapter 08 The Dose That Kills
Chapter 09 The Bell-Shaped Curve
Chapter 10 Testing the Goodness of Fit
Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 12 The Confidence Trick
Chapter 13 The Bayesian Heresy
Chapter 14 The Mozart of Mathematics
Chapter 15 The Worms-Eye View
Chapter 16 Doing Away With Parameters
Chapter 17 When Part is Better than the Whole
Chapter 18 Does Smoking Cause Cancer
Chapter 19 If You Want the Best Person
Chapter 20 Just A Plain Texas Farm Boy
Chapter 21 A Genius in the Family
Chapter 22 The Pieasso of Statistics
Chapter 23 Dealing with Contamination
Chapter 24 The Man Who Remade Industry
Chapter 25 Advice From the Lady in Black
Chapter 26 The March of the Martingales
Chapter 27 The Intent to Treat
Chapter 28 The Computer Turns Upon Itself
Chapter 29 The Idol With Feet of Clay
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