APPENDIX II.
SHORT LIST OF WORKS ON THE MATHEMATICAL
THEORY OF STATISTICS AND THE THEORY OF
PROBABILITY.
THE student may find the following short list of service, as
supplementing the lists of references given at the ends of the
several chapters, the latter containing, as a rule, original memoirs
only. The economic student who wishes to know more of the
practical side of statistics may be referred to Mr A. L. Bowley’s
“ Elements” (6 below), to An Elementary Manual of Statistics
(3rd edn, P. S. King & Sons, London, 1925), by the same writer
(useful as a general guide to English statistics), and to M. Jacques
Bertillon’s Cours élémentaire de statistique (Société d’éditions
scientifiques, 1895: international in scope). Dr A. Newsholme’s
Vital Statistics (Swan Sonnenschein, 3rd edn., 1899) will also be
of service to students of that subject.
The great majority of the works mentioned in the following
list, with others which it has not been thought necessary to
include, are in the library of the Royal Statistical Society.
(1) Ary, Sir G. B., On the Algebraical and Numerical Theory of Errors of
Observations ; 1st edn., 1861 ; 8rd edn., 1879.
(2) BerNouLLL, J., Ars conjectands, opus posthumum: Accedit tractatus de
seriebus infinitis, et epistola gallicé scripta de ludo pilae reticularis,
1713. (A German translation in Ostwald’s Klassiker der exakten
Wissenschaften, Nos, 107, 108.)
(3) BERTRAND, J. L. F., Calcul des probabilités ; Gauthier- Villars, Paris, 1889.
(4) Betz, W., Ueber Korrelation ; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fiir ang. Psych.
und psych. Sammelforschung ; J. A. Barth, Leipzig, 1911. (Applica
tions to psychology.)
(5) BorzL, E., ja de la théorie des probabilités ; Hermann, Paris, 1909.
(6) BowLEY, A. L., Elements of Statistics; P. S. King, London ; 1st edn.,
1901 ; 3rd edn., 1907.
(7) Brown, W., The Essentials of Mental Measurement; Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 1911. (Part 2 on the theory of correlation : applications
to experimental psychology.)
(8) Bruns, H., Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Kollektivmossiehre ;
Teubner, Leipzig, 1906.
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