“Student's” Collected Papers

Abstract

IT would be idle to suppose that biologists are making full use of the powerful tool given to them by modern statistics, or even that they are likely to make full use of it before statistical teaching has improved. Nevertheless it cannot be denied that notable advances towards this desirable end have been, and are being, made. The biologist is at least coming to realize something of the value of statistics, and to regard the statistician as a welcome ally, who will assist in making the most of limited experimental resources, rather than as an unhelpful critic, likely to reject the results of laborious experiments as constituting too small a sample to permit the drawing of statistically reliable conclusions.

“Student's” Collected Papers

Edited by E. S. Pearson John Wishart. Pp. xiv + 224. (London: Biometrika Office, University College, 1943.) 15s. net.