Abstract
THE volume under review is the fourth edition, revised and enlarged, of a “Biological Monograph” first published in 1925. As the editors point out, “Conspicuous progress is now being seen in the field of general physiology, of experimental biology and in the application of biological principles to economic problems”. This involves the analysis of large masses of data by statistical methods, in the process of which, solutions to many complex problems have to be sought. Stimulus is thus given to purely mathematical researches, upon which the methods dealt with in the book are based. The aim of the author is to apply accurate tests to practical data by systematically attacking small sample problems on their merits. No attempt is therefore made to prove rigorously the various propositions upon which the theory rests; for these the reader is referred to an excellent bibliography at the end.
Statistical Methods for Research Workers.
By Dr. R. A. Fisher. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xiv + 307. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1932.) 15s. net.
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Statistical Methods for Research Workers . Nature 131, 383 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131383b0
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