An Introduction to the theory of statistics

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Identifikator:: 1751730271

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127610

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Author:: Yule, George Udny http://d-nb.info/gnd/12910504X

Title:: An Introduction to the theory of statistics

Edition:: 8. ed. rev

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Griffin

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 422 S; Ill., Diagr

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The theory of variables

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VI.—THE FREQUENCY-DISTRIBUTION. only, they would have run 49,479, 23,348, 4,092, and so on, thus suggesting a maximum number of deaths at the beginning of life, ve. a distribution of the present type. It is only the analysis of the deaths in the earlier years of life by one-year intervals which shows that the frequency reaches a true maximum in the fourth year, and therefore the distribution is of the moderately asymmetrical type. In practical cases no hard and Fic. 15.—An ideal Distribution of the extreme Asymmetrical Form. fast line can always be drawn between the moderately and extremely asymmetrical types, any more than between the moderately asymmetrical and the symmetrical type. In economic statistics this form of distribution is particularly characteristic of the distribution of wealth in the population at large, as illustrated, e.g., by income tax and house valuation returns, by returns of the size of agricultural holdings, and so on (cf. ref. 4). The distributions may possibly be a very extreme case of the last type ; but if the maximum is not absolutely at the lower end of the 99

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