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OF all the works a man may set himself to write, the most difficult must surely be an elementary text-book on statistics. The writer of a text-book on almost any scientific subject has to face the difficulties resulting from a recent rapid development of the science of which he is writing, but in statistics he has the further difficulty that many practical methods have been reached by mathematical analysis that is unsuitable for an elementary text-book. Nor is this all, for the subject appeals to so many diverse interests that points simple or useful to one student are merely troublesome or inconsequent to another.
An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics.
By G. Udny Yule. Pp. xiii + 376. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics . Nature 87, 345 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087345a0
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