Die Methode der Variationsstatistik

Abstract

THIS pamphlet, a reprint from the Archiv für Entwickelungsmechanik, is an attempt to render the formulæ and results of the statistical method somewhat more accessible to German biologists than they are, for example, in Prof. Karl Pearson's original papers. In the first part a complete outline is given of the fitting of frequency curves, normalor skew, to observed statistics, and in the second part a similar outline of the theory of correlation. The whole of this extensive ground is covered, however, in some sixty octavo pages, necessitating a degree of compression too great for satisfactory results. Proofs are necessarily almost wholly omitted, several difficulties likely to occur to beginners are slurred over, and there is more than one absolute blunder.

Die Methode der Variationsstatistik.

Von Georg Duncker. Pp. 75, with 8 figures in text. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.)