The Design of Experiments

A stained-glass window in the dining hall of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge commemorated Ronald Fisher and represented a 7 × 7 Latin square. The Sir Ronald Fisher window was removed in 2020 because of Fisher's connection with eugenics.[1]

The Design of Experiments is a 1935 book by the English statistician Ronald Fisher about the design of experiments and is considered a foundational work in experimental design.[2][3][4] Among other contributions, the book introduced the concept of the null hypothesis in the context of the lady tasting tea experiment.[5] A chapter is devoted to the Latin square.

  1. ^ Busby, Mattha (27 June 2020). "Cambridge college to remove window commemorating eugenicist". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  2. ^ Box, JF (February 1980). "R. A. Fisher and the Design of Experiments, 1922–1926". The American Statistician. 34 (1): 1–7. doi:10.2307/2682986. JSTOR 2682986.
  3. ^ Yates, F (June 1964). "Sir Ronald Fisher and the Design of Experiments". Biometrics. 20 (2): 307–321. doi:10.2307/2528399. JSTOR 2528399.
  4. ^ Stanley, Julian C. (1966). "The Influence of Fisher's "The Design of Experiments" on Educational Research Thirty Years Later". American Educational Research Journal. 3 (3): 223–229. doi:10.3102/00028312003003223. JSTOR 1161806. S2CID 145725524.
  5. ^ OED, "null hypothesis," first usage: 1935 R. A. Fisher, The Design of Experiments ii. 19, "We may speak of this hypothesis as the 'null hypothesis'...the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation."