TY - BOOK AU - Yule,G.Udny AU - Kendall,M.G. TI - An introduction to the theory of statistics U1 - SA.01 PY - 1950/// CY - London PB - Charles Griffin & Company Limited KW - Statistics N1 - Includes index; Theory of attributes: basic ideas -- Association of attributes -- Manifold classification -- Frequency-distributions -- Averages and other measures of location -- Measures of dispersion -- Moments and measures of skewness and kurtosis -- Three important theoretical distributions: the binomial, the normal, and the poisson -- Correlation and regression -- Normal correlation -- Further theory of correlation -- partial correlation -- Correlation and regression: some practical problems -- Miscellaneous theorems involving the correlation coefficient -- Simple curve fitting -- Preliminary notions on sampling -- The sampling of attributes: large samples -- The sampling of variables: large samples -- The sampling of variables: large samples continued -- the Chi-square distribution -- The sampling of variables: small samples -- The analysis of variance -- Some problems of practical sampling -- Interpolation and graduation -- Index numbers -- Time-series -- Time-series(2) ER -