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

A book full of history of statistics in the last century

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).

というのが、日本における統計学の地位を表しているように思います。ある分野に限定されているとしても欧米では統計学者はスター選手だったのです。いや、今でもそうかもしれませんが。翻って日本は…ということを認識させられる良書です。