Publications of the American Statistical Association, Volume 14The Association, 1914 A scientific and educational journal not only for professional statisticians but also for economists, business executives, research directors, government officials, university professors, and others who are seriously interested in the application of statistical methods to practical problems, in the development of more useful methods, and in the improvement of basic statistical data. |
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50 cents 75 cents American Statistical Association amount Austria-Hungary average Boston Bureau CARROLL D causes Census cities classes coefficient column Commission committee companies compared compensation computed coöperation cost death rate death-rate decade disability disease distribution dividends divorced economic employees estimate expenditures fact fatal accidents federal figures foreign born FREDERICK FREDERICK L given HENRY GANNETT I. M. RUBINOW immigration index numbers Industrial Accident infant mortality interest International Statistical Institute Interstate Commerce Commission investigation labor Loss manufacturing marriage married Massachusetts measures ment method municipal number of children number of deaths occupations Pearsonian percentage period permanent persons population present problem property income proportion railroads railway ratio relative price revenues sibships social statis Statistical Society statisticians tical tion total number United vital statistics vote wages WALTER F WILLCOX women York York City
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Page 69 - I cannot think of any other standard appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilized community.
Page 55 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a ratio by the same number does not change the value of the ratio.
Page 4 - States, the suggestion presents itself whether the scope of the measure might not be usefully extended by causing it to embrace authentic statistical returns of the great interests specially intrusted to, or necessarily affected by, the legislation of Congress.
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Page 83 - The weather conditions represented by the rainfall in the central part of the United States, and probably in other continental areas, pass through cycles of approximately thirty-three years and eight years in duration, causing like cycles in the yield per acre of the crops; these cycles of crops constitute the natural, material current which drags upon its surface the lagging, rhythmically changing values and prices with which the economist is more immediately concerned.