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THIS work is intended primarily as a text-book for a. course in mathematics and not as a reference book for the statistician. It is to be doubted, however, whether the mathematician as such will be quite satisfied with it. In its scope it is modest, commencing with useful chapters on numerical computation, finite differences, and interpolation, and proceeding by easy stages, through probability, averages, a treatment of the-normal frequency curve, to correlation. While there-are copious and useful examples, the mathematical treatment is patchy and uneven; it is a useful, interesting, but unsatisfying production.
An Introduction to the Mathematical Analysis of Statistics.
By Prof. C. H. Forsyth. Pp. viii + 241. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1924.) 11s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 115, 296 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115296d0
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