Design of experiments

The first statistician to consider a methodology for the design of experiments was Sir Ronald A. Fisher. He described how to test the hypothesis that a certain lady could distinguish by flavor alone whether the milk or the tea was first placed in the cup. While this sounds like a frivolous application, it allowed him to illustrate the most important ideas of experimental design:

External links

• Biography of R. A. Fisher
• Description of how to design experiments
• A chapter from a handbook on engineering statistics at NIST