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AN important article has appeared in the Journal of the Royal Statistical society (vol. 90, Part 3, 1927) on practical applicational of the statistics of repeated events, particularly to industrial accidents, part of which had been read by Miss Newbold before the Society on April, 26 last. Several times in these pages, articales dealing with accident investigations have been reviewed, and it is useful to have this very able summary of a number of separate lines of attack as well as the statistical details and tables. Research workers sometimes fail to understand some of the simpler laws of causation and reproduce their results in such a way as to render interpretation difficult or impossible. Averages are assumed without evidence be what they seem to be, and comparisons are made between incomparable groups.
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The Statistics of Accident Investigations. Nature 120, 786–787 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120786b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120786b0