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IN this volume Mr. King has endeavoured “to furnish a simple text in statistical method for the benefit of those students, economists, administrative officials, writers, or other members of the educated public who desire a general knowledge of the more elementary processes involved in the scientific study, analysis, and use of large masses of statistical data.” After a brief historical introduction, he outlines the uses and sources of statistical data, and then gives a few short chapters on “the gathering of material”; the third part, forming the bulk of the book, deals with “analysis,” i.e., tabulation, averages, dispersion, correlation, and so forth.
The Elements of Statistical Method.
Willford I. King. Pp. xvii+250. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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The Elements of Statistical Method . Nature 90, 33 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090033a0
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