Abstract
IF this first volume of a new series of studies gives a true indication, the series is designed to introduce statistics to a public for which no language can be too elementary, no remark too obvious, no emphasis too crude. The attempt is significant, for stability of democratic government may well depend on the possibility of such an introduction, and when the experiment is made in the popular press, the journalist will be fortunate in having an authoritative model. Dr. Rhodes describes excellently the precautions with which the raw material of a statistical inquiry should be compiled, the nature of simple and weighted averages, the, meanings of median and quartile and of deviation and dispersion, the use of graphs, and the analysis of time series by means of a moving average. There is a wealth of numerical and graphical illustration, but the index does not conform to any reasonable standard.
Elementary Statistical Methods.
Dr.
E. C.
Rhodes
By. (London School of Economics and Political Science: Studies in Statistics and Scientific Method, No. 1.) Pp. v + 243. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1933.) 7s. 6d. net.
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N., E. Elementary Statistical Methods . Nature 133, 9 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133009c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133009c0