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Nilakantan and Achar1 have recently described an iterative method for obtaining approximations to frequency distributions from limited data. No attempt was made to provide a theoretical justification of the procedure. In view of the many possible applications of the method it appears worth while to discuss its justification and limitation.
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Nilakantan, P., and Achar, B. N., Nature, 193, 1005 (1962).
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HEAPS, H. An Iterative Method for obtaining Statistical Frequency Distributions. Nature 196, 1236–1237 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1961236a0
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