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Tea for three: Of infusions and inferences and milk in first
Author(s) -
Senn Stephen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00620.x
Subject(s) - statistician , biochemist , joke , nice , literature , philosophy , history , computer science , classics , art , mathematics , statistics , programming language
A statistician, an algologist and a biochemist sat down to a nice cup of tea. The algologist would not drink hers. It sounds like the start of a bad joke. It was actually the beginning – the rather romantic beginning – of proper design and analysis of experiments. Stephen Senn considers how that time‐honoured British institution, the tea‐break, inspired R. A. Fisher to an approach which still raises questions today.