Tea for three: Of infusions and inferences and milk in first

Stephen Senn

doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00620.x

Tea for three: Of infusions and inferences and milk in first

Stephen Senn^*

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-33
Number of pages	4
Journal	Significance
Volume	9
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00620.x
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012

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