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Karl Pearson, An Appreciation of Some Aspects of His Life and Work, by E. S. Pearson. Cambridge: University Press. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1938. viii, 170 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Antonio Ciocco Statistical Research Memoirs, Volume II, edited by J. Neyman and E. S. Pearson. London: Department...

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Published in:Journal of the American Statistical Association 1939, Vol.34 (207), p.588-635
Main Author: McLaughlin, Glenn E.
Format: Review
Language:eng
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Summary:Karl Pearson, An Appreciation of Some Aspects of His Life and Work, by E. S. Pearson. Cambridge: University Press. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1938. viii, 170 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Antonio Ciocco Statistical Research Memoirs, Volume II, edited by J. Neyman and E. S. Pearson. London: Department of Statistics, University College. December, 1938. 149 pp. 15s. Reviewed by Walter A. Shewhart Principles of Medical Statistics, by A. Bradford Hill. London England: The Lancet Limited. Second Edition, 1939. vii, 189 pp. 6/-. Reviewed by Edwin B. Wilson Probability, Statistics and Truth, by Richard von Mises. London: William Hodge and Company, Limited. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1939, xvi, 323 pp. 12/6 or $3.75. Reviewed by Abraham Wald The Kelley Statistical Tables, Compiled by Truman Lee Kelley. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1938. 136 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by Helen M. Walker Your Chance to Win: The Laws of Chance and Probability, by Horace C. Levinson. New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1939. 343 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Ira N. Frisbee Report of the Fourth Annual Research Conference on Economics and Statistics, July 5 to 29, 1938. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. 106 pp. Reviewed by Francis W. Dresch Storage and Stability, A Modern Ever-Normal Granary, by Benjamin Graham, with a foreword by Alvin Johnson. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1937. xviii, 298 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by Asher Hobson Operating Results of Consumer Co-operatives in the United States in 1937, by Carl N. Schmalz. Boston: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. Bureau of Business Research Bulletin Number 108. Volume XXVI, Number 1. March 1939. v, 37 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by Ira D. Anderson A Raw Commodity Revolution, by Melvin T. Copeland. Boston: Bureau of Business Research, Harvard University. Publication of the Graduate School of Business Administration. Volume XXV, Number 1. Business Research Studies, Number 19. March, 1938. vi, 97 pp. $1.25. Reviewed by Reavis Cox Retail Credit Survey: 1937, by Malcolm L. Merriam. Washington, D. C.: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce. Domestic Commerce Series, Number 103. November, 1938. vii, 153 pp. 20 cents. Reviewed by Reavis Cox Suggestions for Use in Making a City Survey (Industrial and Commercial), by Ada Lillian Bush. Washington, D. C.: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Domestic
ISSN:0162-1459
1537-274X