Originally published in 1906 by C. & E. Layton, Limited, this work, with its many later improvements, became a standard textbook on curve-fitting and was several times reissued. Reprinted here is the 1953 fourth edition of the book, published by Cambridge University Press, and containing a preface by the author, Sir William Elderton, in which he comments on the changes that he introduced.
Contents
1. Introductory; 2. Frequency distributions; 3. Method of moments; 4. Pearson's system of frequency-curves; 5. Calculation; 6. Comparison of various systems of curves; 7. Correlation; 8. Theoretical distributions. Spurious correlation; 9. Correlation of characters not quantitatively measurable; 10. Standard errors; 11. The test of goodness of fit; 12. The correlation ration - contingency; 13. Partial correlation; Appendices; Index; Folding table of curves.
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