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Teaching-Research-Consultation

On the balance between the activities of a scientific statistical institute

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Trabajos de Estadistica

Arnold J. Toynbee, on the general analysis of personal relations: The very idea of an exhaustive recording of them is an absurdity. Any formulation of their «laws» would be intolerably platitudinous or intolerably crude.

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Lecture given at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas on March 1st, 1949. The lecture is partly based on committee material; cf. Refs. 1, 4.

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Wold, H. Teaching-Research-Consultation. Trabajos de Estadistica 1, 69–84 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03025202

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