Principles and methods of statistics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chaddock, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1879-1940
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pte. 1. Introduction Preliminary considerations: 1. The appeal to facts
  • 2. Misuses of statistical data
  • 3. Statistics in the service of science
  • Pte. 2. Classification and description of mass data: 4. Classification of statistical data
  • 5. The frecuency distribution
  • 6. Methods of sumarization and description the arithmetic average
  • 7. Methods of summarization and description the median and the geometric mean
  • 8. Methods of summarization and description - the mode
  • 9. Variation and its measurement
  • 10. Index numbers - an application of statistical methods
  • 11. Measures of unreliability probable error
  • 12. Discovery and measurement of relationships correlation
  • 13. The time series - historical statistics
  • Pte. 3. The gathering and presentation of statistical data
  • 14. Collection of statistical data
  • 15. Presenting statistical data in tables
  • 16. Graphic representation
  • Apéndices