Abstract
AFTER an epidemic disease has visited a country, when the pathologist and practical physician have had their say, there still remains the work of the statistician to be done. It is his province to sum up the results of the visitation in the clear light of hard figures, and to trace its onset and decline in mathematical curves. Such work is of value in more than one direction. It preserves for future generations a definite record of an epidemic of greater precision than the impression left on the mind of the physician: it enables a comparison to be drawn between our own experience and that of other countries: by the sifting and sorting of facts which it necessitates it may lead to the discovery of relationships with allied diseases which may prove of no small value to the pathologist.
Epidemic Influenza: a Study in Comparative Statistics.
By F. A. Dixey (London: Henry Frowde and H. K. Lewis, 1892.)
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Epidemic Influenza: a Study in Comparative Statistics. Nature 47, 244–245 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047244a0
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