The Lady Tasting Tea Analysis

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The Lady Tasting Tea is a really interesting book, which draws a picture of statistics’ development in 20th century. Many famous people who contributed to this filed are introduced with their talented creations. You even do not need to own professional statistical knowledge. Just some basic mathematical knowledge is enough. And in this book, we do not only see these persons’ inventions and applications of statistics, but also their very distinct characteristics.
Generally speaking, Karl Pearson and Ronald Aylmer Fisher are two persons who accounts for the greatest room in this book, due to their excellent work and philosophical difference in approach to distributions. Karl Pearson regarded statistical distributions as depicting a real image of data while Fisher viewed the collected data as the estimation …show more content…

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis used random sample to predict overall values.
Jerome Cornfield, his work, to some extent, made great contributions to public health. Not to mention inverting a 24*24 matrix, he introduced odds ratio into case-control study, which later became the basis concept in modern era’s epidemiologic research.
Gertrude Cox and Stella Cunliffe were two towering woman in the statistical world, and Cox was also the first women to be elected into the International Statistical Institute, whose book Experimental Design became a classic in the design and analysis of replicated experiments.
“Samuel S Wilks struggled to make mathematical statistics both a respectable part of mathematics and a useful tool for applications.” And finally he succeeded. He played an important role in the development of practical applications of mathematical statistics. We called John Wilder Tukey as the Picasso of statistics because he invented box plots, stem-and-leaf plots, rootgram instead of histogram to make statistics more

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