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DR. VENN, in a letter published in NATURE, September 1 (p. 411), adduces certain meteorological statistics which do not conform to the typical law of error or probability-curve. To discover the cause of this failure there would be required both a special knowledge of the subject-matter and the general conceptions which the calculus of probabilities supplies. The latter qualification is the only one to which the present writer can make any pretension.
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EDGEWORTH., F. The Law of Error. Nature 36, 482–483 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036482d0
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