Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volumen19

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American Statistical Association, 1924
A scientific and educational journal not only for professional statisticians but also for economists, business executives, research directors, government officials, university professors, and others who are seriously interested in the application of statistical methods to practical problems, in the development of more useful methods, and in the improvement of basic statistical data.
 

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Página 91 - The professional and scientific service shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform routine, advisory, administrative, or research work which is based upon the established principles of a profession or science, and which requires professional, scientific, or technical training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a college or university of recognized standing.
Página 350 - Committee should be charged by the Governments with the task of collecting the various proposals to be submitted to the Conference, of ascertaining what subjects are ripe for embodiment in an International Regulation...
Página 41 - Comparative Fecundity of Women of Native and Foreign Parentage in the United States", Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association, Vol.
Página 359 - Hereafter the Executive shall not extend or accept any invitation to participate in any international congress, conference, or like event without first having specific authority of law to do so.
Página 91 - ... [The annual rates of compensation for positions in this grade shall be $3,727.20, $3,852.60, $3,978, $4,103.40, $4,228.80, $4.354.20, and $4,479.60. [CLERICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND FISCAL SERVICE...
Página 39 - The Change in the Proportion of Children in the United States and in the Birth Rate in France During the Nineteenth Century.
Página 35 - Falkner ; A comparative study of the statistics of agriculture of the tenth and eleventh census, by NT Stone. No. 47. — Notes on map making and graphic representation, by WZ Rlpley ; The Portuguese population In the United States, by Frederick L.
Página 8 - Generally speaking, therefore, I think that the business of statistical technique ought to be regarded as strictly limited to preparing the numerical aspects of our material in an intelligible form, so as to be ready for the application of the usual inductive methods.
Página 108 - American wet-climate trees give a similar record but with their maxima 1 to 3 years in advance of the solar maxima. It is possible to identify living trees giving this remarkable record and to ascertain the exact conditions under which they grow. "Practically all the groups of trees investigated show the sun-spot cycle or its multiples; the solar cycle becomes more certain and accurate as the area of homogeneous region increases or the time of a tree record extends farther back ; this suggests the...
Página 2 - Ah. linger still, thou art so fair'; he can fix and keep the star in the focus of his telescope, or protect the delicate fiber and nerve of a decaying organism from succumbing to the rapid disintegration of organic change. The practical man cannot do this; he is always and everywhere met by the crowd of facts, by the relentlessly hurrying stream of events. What he requires is grasp of numbers, leaving to the professional man the knowledge of detail. Thus has arisen the science of large numbers or...

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