ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B1131

    Title

 Facts From Figures Penguin Books London 1951

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     Summary

CONTENTS 1. Statistics Undesirable 2. The Law of Chance 3. The Magic Lantern Technique 4. On the Average 5. Scatter 6. Speeding up Calculations 7. Fault-Finding-The binomial distribution 8. Goals, floods, and horse-kicks – The Poisson Distribution 9. The normal Distribution 10. What Happens when we take Samples 11. Control Charts 12. Safety in Sampling 13. How to be a Good judge – Test of Significance 14. How to be Precise though vague – Estimation and Confidence Limits 15. Association, Contingency, and Goodness of Fit – The x2 Distribution 16. Correlation, Cause and Effect 17. Time Series and Fortune Telling 18. Ranking Methods 19. The Analysis of Variation and Co-variation 20. Statistics Desirable