Frequency Curves and Correlation
4th Edition
Published on 30. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
290 pages
978-1-107-60129-1 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1906 by C. & E. Layton, Limited, this work, with its many later improvements, became a standard textbook on curve-fitting and was several times reissued. Reprinted here is the 1953 fourth edition of the book, published by Cambridge University Press, and containing a preface by the author, Sir William Elderton, in which he comments on the changes that he introduced.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-60129-1 (9781107601291)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Introductory; 2. Frequency distributions; 3. Method of moments; 4. Pearson's system of frequency-curves; 5. Calculation; 6. Comparison of various systems of curves; 7. Correlation; 8. Theoretical distributions. Spurious correlation; 9. Correlation of characters not quantitatively measurable; 10. Standard errors; 11. The test of goodness of fit; 12. The correlation ration - contingency; 13. Partial correlation; Appendices; Index; Folding table of curves.