...accurate omnium circumstantiarum enumeratione) is as applicable to scientific as to political inquiries. Generally speaking, therefore, I think that the business...numerical aspects of our material in an intelligible form, lib as to be ready for the application of the usual inductive methods. Statistical technique tells...

...eyes of common sense in a maze of mathematics." His general conclusion is that, generally speaking, " the business of statistical technique ought to be...application of the usual inductive methods." Statistical workers will do well always to keep in mind the warning conveyed by Keynes in the following words :...

...applicable to ecopomic time series and to forecasting therefrom Keynes' dictum that statistical technique is limited to preparing the numerical aspects of our...material in an intelligible form, so as to be ready for application of the usual methods ef inductive logic. How to supply the rational norms for judging the...

...experiences. The latter half of Part V is given over almost entirely to criticism of statistical practice. "Generally speaking, therefore, I think that the business...for the application of the usual inductive methods." It is generally not valid to proceed also, by statistical technique, to calculate probabilities. Enough...

...accurate omnium ctrcumstantiarum enumeralione) is aa applicable to scientific as to political inquiries. Generally speaking, therefore, I think that the business...It must not proceed also, except in the exceptional ease where our evidence furnishes us from the outset with data of a particular kind, to turn its results...

...applicable to economic time series and to forecasting therefrom Keynes' dictum that statistical technique is limited to preparing the numerical aspects of our...material in an intelligible form, so as to be ready for application of the usual methods of inductive logic. How to supply the rational norms for judging the...