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DURING recent years there have been considerable developments in the application of modern statistical methods to the technical problems of industry and agriculture. The Council of the Royal Statistical Society considers that the time is now opportune for the formal provision of facilities which will stimulate discussion of such problems. It has therefore been decided to form a special section of the Society for the purpose of promoting the application of methods of statistical analysis to industrial and agricultural problems. This new development of the Society's activities should certainly meet a real need, since in the research department of a large industrial firm or at an agricultural research institute, special investigations are frequently undertaken which involve careful planning and experiment before the most suitable statistical procedure is obtained, while in the ordinary course of day-to-day production and selling, there often arise problems of sampling and testing, or questions as to whether measurements taken are used to the best advantage, and how far they are adequate for the purpose intended or even the extent to which some of them may be redundant. The facilities provided by the Section will be twofold: (1) the holding of regular meetings; and (2) the publication of a supplement to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, devoted entirely to this aspect of statistical science. The first meeting will be held on Thursday, November 23, at the Hall of the Royal Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.2, at 5.30 p.m.
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Statistical Methods in Technical Problems. Nature 132, 670 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132670b0
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