Frequency Curves and Correlation
Frequency Curves and Correlation
4th Edition
William Palin Elderton
June 2011
Paperback
9781107601291
$40.00
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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.
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June 2011Paperback
9781107601291
290 pages
216 × 140 × 17 mm
0.37kg
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Table of 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.
