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FEW sciences are more difficult to present in a concise and readable manner than statistics, which is regarded as a symbol of all that is dull and devoid of human interest. "What you've got," says Idaho Green in one of O. Henry's stories, "is statistics, the lowest grade of information that exists." To give the general reader an idea of the fascination of astronomy, biology and even mathematics is relatively easy; but this is the first attempt I have seen to perform that very useful function for statistics.
Statistics
By L. H. C. Tippett. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, No. 156.) Pp. v + 184. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943.) 3s. net.
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KENDALL, M. Statistics. Nature 154, 321 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154321a0
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