This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...those who were intrusted with the gathering and using of these data the observation that all such knowledge is incomplete and inaccurate. Owing to the variability, within certain limits, of recurring events and the errors of counting and registration, we have to content ourselves always with approximation instead of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...those who were intrusted with the gathering and using of these data the observation that all such knowledge is incomplete and inaccurate. Owing to the variability, within certain limits, of recurring events and the errors of counting and registration, we have to content ourselves always with approximation instead of certainty. Error bulks very largely in all statistics, and vitiates them; and as regards coming events, our minds are in a state of expectation rather than of assurance. But events can be more or less probable, errors can be greater or smaller, cumulative or compensatory, and our expectations may be well-or illfounded. And so there has arisen the science of Probabilities and of Chances, and the Theory of Error, two subjects intimately interwoven. The former arose in the seventeenth century out of the frivolous or vicious practice of betting and gambling, whilst the latter was founded when astronomical observations accumulated, and the question presented itself how to combine them so as to arrive at the most reliable result." Now from these two quotations, which may certainly be considered as fairly stating the case, it is apparent that those circumstances which led men to turn to statistical methods of reasoning and investigation were not such as grow out of an increasing precision and certainty of knowledge about the events or things under consideration, but rather were quite the opposite. In other words, the statistical point of view, in the first instance, was adopted as an admittedly imperfect means of getting some sort of knowledge about a class of events concerning which it was difficult or impossible to get by other methods the precise or particular kind of knowledge which was wanted. III A careful consideration of the history of sta...
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Xl, vg; vii, 182 p., diagrs. MODES of RESEARCH in GENETICS: reproduced in part from Science & the American Naturalist: NUC-NP 0169830. : GARRISON-MORTON, 247: GENETICS: HEREDITY: RAYMOND PEARL, 1879-1940. In original blue buckram with gilt titles on spine, xl, vg; vii, 182 p., diagrs.19.5cm.
