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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 77

Second Edition. — Elements of Statistics

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Second Edition.

Elements of Statistics.

A Text-Book dealing with the Methods and Principles of Statistics recognised by statistical experts or used by official statisticians. The methods by which accurate statistics can be collected are examined and illustrated, and the Technique of statistical representation Discussed. Considerable space is allotted to the subject of Averages and of Graphic Representation, and many examples are given of their use and abuse. Other subjects, little discussed in any books easily accessible to English students, such as the Accuracy of Results and the Interpolation of Missing Estimates, are also dealt with in Part I., while in Part II. will be found an Elementary Introduction to Modern Mathematical Statistics, with a Careful Analysis Of The Groundwork of the Theory of Error.

Economic Journal—" The London School of Economics has, since its foundation, had systematic courses of lectures on the elements of statistics, and the School therefore is entitled to share with Mr. Bowley the congratulations which are due to him for supplying a long-felt want. Without further ado it may be plainly stated that, whatever its shortcomings, this book is the best on the elements of Statistics written in English, French, German, or Italian."

University Extension Journal.—" This is a work for which in itself we have conceived an almost unqualified admiration. Its absolute merits are great enough to enable it to dispense with such added praise or mitigation of censure as pioneer work may often justly ask. It is really the first connected English treatise which assumes the existence of the newest variety of the human species, the serious and scientific student of statistics. To meet the common superstition that 'anything may be proved by statistics,' there can be no better means than to refer the objector to just such a work as this. But in the present state of statistical knowledge or rather of statistical ignorance, it would be of little use so to refer him if the work itself were not well and brightly written, as is this, with here and there those quiet gleams of humour that mark the author for the skilled teacher that he is."

Journal of the Institute of Actuaries.—" A good English text-book on Statistics has been a long-felt want, and there can be little doubt but that Mr. Bowley has supplied this want in an admirable way."

P. S. King & Son, Orchard House, Westminster.