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QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE

AMERICAN

STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

VOLUME XVII

Nos. 129-136

1920-1921

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CONTENTS

ARTICLES AND FEATURED NOTES

Binomial expansion, Rapid methods of ap- proximating to terms in a.

Build, The best index of. Business research, Statistical standards in . Capital return, Suggestions as to the laws of Census Advisory Committee, Report of the Census Advisory Committee, Second report

of the. Census, The analysis of a. Census, The conduct of the Fourteenth . . Census of production, A continuous: a round

table discussion. Census, The essentials of a good. Coal production and distribution, Control

statistics of. Collection conditions, Methods of develop-

ing an index of. College graduates, Statistics of. Correlation, The coefficient of. Correlation, A special application of partial Cost analyses, A graphic method for present-

ing comparative. Cost-of-living studies, A critique of . . . . Criminal statistics, The improvement of . . Dispersion for ordered series, A measure of. Dispersion, A new measure of. Electrical statistics as a barometer of indus-

trial activity. Employees, The classification of United

States statistical. Families, The measurement of the relative

economic status of.

Farr's relation between birth rate, death rate, and mean length of life, A simple graphic construction for.

Food prices in the United States during the war.

Food requirements and expenditures . . . French war finance. Frequency distribution, A graphic represen-

tation of a. Frequency distributions, The mathematical

representation of (in two parts) . . . Frequency percentages, On a new method of

computing. Health and longevity, National changes in Immigrants, The ability of European, to

speak English. Immigrants, Occupations of, before and after

coming to the United States. Income distribution, A national money ac-

counting as the basis for studies of , .

PAGE Geoege F. McEwen . . 606 Chaeles B. Davenport . 341 Hoeace Seceist. 45 M. C. Roety. 154 . 76

. 465 G. H. Knibbs. 177 William M. Steuaet . . 569

. 67 JOSEPH A. HlLL. 1

F. G. Tryon. 314

W. H. Steinee. 426 J. P. Shaw, Je. 335 Franz Boas. 683 W. L. Ceum. 949

H. R. Bonnee. 277 Geoege E. Baenett . . . 904 Louis M. Robinson . . . 157 W. L. Ceum. 969 Truman L. Kelley . . . 743

Robeet M. Davis. ... 878

Lewis Meeiam. 235

Edgae Sydenstricker and WlLLFORD I. KlNG . . . 842

Alfred J. Lotka .... 998

Edmund E. Day .... 134 J. Arthtjr Harris ... 133 Faith M. Williams ... 638

Robert E. Chaddock . . 769

Harry C. Carver . . 720, 885

Robert E. Moritz ... 622 Arthtjr Newsholme . . 689

Louis Bloch. 402

Louis Bloch. 750

M. C. Rorty. 560

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Income, The measurement of variations in the national real.

Incomes, An index of. Incomes of bituminous coal producers . . . Index number, The best form of (with dis-

cussion). Index numbers, Certain properties of . . . Index number, On the best form of . . . . Industrial class alignments in the United

States . Literacy test for immigrants, Two years'

operation of the. Labor productivity, The measurement of . Morbidity statistics, Industrial establishment

disability records as a source of . . . .

Mortality of race stocks in Pennsylvania and New York, 1910, The.

Mortality of college women. Oil Stocks, A price index of. Physical development of Vassar College stu-

dents, 1880-1921. Population of the United States for intercen-

sal years, Estimates of the. Population, On the study of displacements

within a. Price indexes, International. Prices during the war. Production statistics, Cost of. Representatives, A new method of appor-

tionment of. Representatives, On the apportionment of . Representatives, Report upon the apportion?

ment of (Census Advisory Committee) Reserve ratios of changes in reserves and in

liabilities, The effect on the. Statistical Commission, the International,

appointed by the Council of the League of Nations, Report of.

Statistical tables, Standardization of the construction of.

Statistics, International, and the League of Nations.

Statistics as a technique, The conception of . Statistics in state institutions, Standardiza?

tion of. Stature, Decrease in. Stature of American males, The mean . . . Tax on spirits, The efTeets of varying the rate

of the. Tax returns, A new analysis of personal in-

come. Trade statistics, The origin and develop?

ment of modern. Trigonometric tables in correlation, A use for

PAGE E. E. Day. 552 K. G. Kaesten. 253 e. a. goldenweisee . . 203

Irving Fisher. 533 Truman L. Kelley . . . 826 Royal Meeker. 909

Alvin H. Hansen ... 417

Louis Bloch. 333 P. Sargant Florence . 289

Edgar Sydenstricker and Dean K. Brundage . . . 584

Louis I. Dublin and Gladden W. Baker . Myra M. Hulst . . . joseph e. pogue . . .

Mabel Newcomer . .

donald r. belcher .

Harald Westergaard Katharine Snodgrass Walter W. Stewart . Lewis H. Haney . . .

EDWARD V. HUNTINGTON F. W. Owens.

E. A. Goldenweiser

13 599 953

976

994

381 326 305 141

859 958

1004

871

R. H. Coats. 635

E. E. Day. 59

Lucien March. 629 John Cummings. 164

Horatio M. Pollock . . 625 J. Arthur Harris ... 219 Charles B. Davenport . 484

K. M. Williamson . . . 451

M. C. Rorty. 487

Faith M. Williams ... 732 HOLBROOK WORKING . . 765

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Tuberculosis, On the cost of.

Unemployment, Methods used in measuring Vector method for computing a weighted

average, A. Vital statistics in public health administra-

tion, The better use of. Vital statistics, Some landmarks in the his-

tory of.? Wage statistics of the National Industrial

Conference Board, An examination of the.

Water supply quality, The statistical method in problems of.

Louis I. Dublin and page Jessamine Whitney . . . 441 Ernest S. Bradford . . 983

R. von Huhn.1000

Arthur Newsholme . . 815

Raymond Pearl .... 221

Paul H. Douglas. ... 893

Abel Wolman.188

SHORT NOTES

Accident table, An American . Banking field, Developments in.

British finance, Short term borrowing in . . Business conditions, First Federal Confer-

ence on, reporting. Business indexes of the Frankfurter Zeitung,

The. . Buying power of the community, Measuring

the. Census of agriculture, Progress of the . . . Census of New Zealand for 1916, Analytical

summary of the. Census of the Italian population for 1921 . . Census of population, Progress of the . . . Census work, Progress of the Fourteenth . Correlation, Summary and group. Correspondence. Crum, Frederick S. Employment index for Wisconsin, An . . . Eugenics Congress. Family statistics in New Zealand. Florence Nightingale Centenary.

Frequency percentages, On Professor Moritz' method of computing.

Labor Bureau, International. Life tables for the City of Havana .... Metron, The first number of. Miscellaneous notes. Proceedings of the Eighty-first Annual Meet-

ing of the American Statistical Associa- tion.

Proceedings of the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association.

Retail trade, A national index of. Retail trade, Indexes of. Smallpox statistics for the Pacific Coast . . Stature and weight of children. Statistical activities in Central Europe . .

Olive E. Outwater . . 492 M. Jacobson and E. A. goldenweiser. 350 Katharine Snodgrass . 776

W. H. Steiner.786

Faith M. Williams . . . 915

Robert E. Chaddock . . 784 J. A. Hill.779

Robert M. Woodbury . 920 C. Gini. 648 J. A. Hill. 489

. 1014 Herbert A. Sturges . . 778 . 1021

Walter F. Willcox . . 1020 . 497

C. C. Little. 1018 Robert M. Woodbury . 345 M. A. Nutting and E. W. Kopf. 650

Karl J. Holzinger ... 919 .649

Louis I. Dublin .... 354 .496

131,224,357,499,651,787,921,1022

.108

.643 Lawrence B. Mann . . 1013 F. W. Jones. 347 Louis I. Dublin .... 498 Robert M. Woodbury . 780 F. L. Hoffman.782

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Statistical organization, International under the League of Nations.

Statistical training for undergraduates . . Statistics in Massachusetts, Organization of

the Division of.

PAGE R. H. Coats.356 Robert E. Chaddock . . 1016

Roswell F. Phelps . . . 495

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Ayres: An index number for state school systems.

Bernhardt: Government control of the sugar industry in the United States.

Beyer, Davis, and Thwing: WorkingmeD's standard of living in Philadelphia . . .

Bogart: Direct and indirect costs of the great World War.

Bogart: War costs and their financing . . . Bowley: Official statistics. Burgess: Trends of school costs. Child, see Dewey Cotton, see Little Dalton: The inequalities of incomes . . . Davenport, see Love Davis, see Beyer Day: An index of the physical volume of

production. Dawley, see Furnald Dewey, Child, and Ruml: Methods and re-

sults of testing school children .... Dewing: The financial policy of corporations Dodd: Some dangers in establishing a pen-

sion system and the proper precautions Dreyer: The assessment of physical fitness. Dublin: Mortality statistics of insured wage-

earners and their families. Duncan: Commercial research. Foerster: The Italian emigration of our times Frederick: Business research and statistics. Friday: Profits, wages, and prices. Furnald, Hayes, Dawley, and Ruml: A study

of women delinquents. Gregory: Foreign exchange before, during

and after the war .......... Haskell: How to make and use graphic

charts. Hayes, see Furnald Howard: The movement of wages in the

cotton manufacturing industry of New England since 1860.

Johnson, see Popenoe Julin: Principes de statistique theorique et

applique*e. Kelley: Mental aspects of delinquency . . Little and Cotton: Budgets of families and

individuals of Kensington, Philadelphia Love and Davenport: Defects found in

drafted men. . Pearl: The nation's food.

D. E. Weglein.371

W. H. Hamilton .... 799

F. H. Streightoff . . . 670

F. R. Fairchild .... 367 W. O. Weyforth .... 1035 Lewis Meriam. 1040 E. E. Day. 663

0. W. Knauth.666

H. P. Willis.1033

W. A. McCall.941 Kemper Simpson .... 796

1. S. Adlerblum .... 373 F. M. Phillips.929

Arthur Newsholme . . 121 A. R. Burnet. 126 P. H. Douglass. 213 L. K. Frank. 517 W. C. Mitchell .... 661

L. N. Robinson.805

J. H. WlLLIAMS.1028

A. R. Burnet.123

W- W. Riefler.804

W. I. King. 926 H. R. Bonner. 658

W. F. Ogburn. 519

M. M. Dawson. 932 G. K. Holmes. 363

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Popenoe and Johnson: Applied Eugenics . Redmayne and Stone: The ownership and

valuation of mineral properties in the United Kingdom.

Ruml, see Dewey and Furnald Scott, Negro migration during the war . . Secerov: Economic phenomena before and

after the war. Secrist: Readings and problems in statisti?

cal methods. Secrist: Statistics in business. Shanahan: Animal foodstufTs. Stone, see Redmayne Thwing, see Beyer Wallace: Agricultural prices. Walsh: The problem of estimation . . . . Whipple: Vital statistics. Williams: Argentine international trade un-

der inconvertible paper money .... Yearbook of the Commonwealth of Australia Yule: The fallof the birth rate.

PAGE R. M. Woodbury .... 125

F. G. Tryon. 802

R. F. Foerster. 940

F. H. Hankins. 210

W. O. Weyforth .... 668 R. L. White. 215 J. R. Smith. 671

W. W. Stewart. 795 Irving Fisher. 935 E. W. Kopf. 216

H. P. Willis. 794 E. A. Goldenweiser . . 521 J. A. Field. 793

REVIEWS OF REPORTS

American-Canadian mortality investigation. Birth statistics for the birth registration area

of the United States. Census of religious bodies. Decennial census of Massachusetts .... English bank restriction and the bullion re?

port . Enquiry into production. Military and naval insurance. Report of the Dominion Statistician.... Report of the registrar general of births,

deaths, and marriages in England and Wales.

Report on abridged life tables. Report on the mortality from influenza in

England and Wales. Report on the pandemic of influenza.... Rules for reporting information on railroad

employees. Special tables of mortality from influenza . Statistics of income. Sugar supply and prices.

Robert Henderson ... 368

L. J. Reed. 666 C. E. Gehlke. 512 E. W. Kopf. 217

W. O. Weyforth .... 506 E. E. Day. 926 S. H. Wolfe. 509 Leo Wolman. 128

L. J. Reed. 665 J. W. Glover. 1025

E. W. Kopf. 801 E. W. Kopf. 1038

Lewis Meriam. 936 Edgar Sydenstricker . . 522 G. P. Watkins. 515 Joshua Bernhardt . . . 1031

RECENT LITERATURE

Pages 376, 524, 672, 807, 944,1042.

CONTRIBUTORS

Leading articles are marked (A); featured notes (N); short notes (n); and reviews (R). Adlerblum, I. S., 373 (R) Baker, G. W., 13 (A) Barnett, G. E., 904 (N) Belcher, D. R., 994 (N)

Bernhardt, J., 1031 (R) Bloch, L., 333 (N), 402 (A), 750 (A) Boas, F., 683 (A) Bonner, H. R., 277 (A), 658 (R)

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Bradford, E. S., 983 (N) Brundage, D. K., 584 (A) Burnet, A. R., 123 (R), 126 (R) Carver, H. C, 720 (A), 885 (A) Chaddock, R. E., 769 (N), 784 (n),

1016 (n) Coats, R. H., 356 (n), 635 (N) Crum, W. L., 949 (A), 969 (A) Cummings, J., 164 (A) Davenport, C. B., 341 (N), 484 (N) Davis, R. M., 878 (A) Dawson, M. M., 932 (R) Day, E. E., 59 (A), 134 (n), 552 (A),

663 (R), 926 (R) Douglas, P. H., 213 (R), 893 (N) Dublin, L. L, 13 (A), 354 (n), 441 (A),

498 (n) Fairchild, F. R., 367 (R) Field, J. A., 793 (R) Fisher, L, 533 (A), 935 (R) Florence, P. S., 289 (A) Foerster, R. F.} 940 (R) Frank, L. K, 517 (R) Gehlke, C. E., 512 (R) Gini, C, 648 (n) Glover, J. W., 1025 (R) Goldenweiser, E. A., 203 (A), 350 (n),

521 (R), 871 (A) Hamilton, W. H., 799 (R) Haney, L. H., 141 (A* Hankins, F. H., 210 (R) Hansen, A. H., 417 (A) Harris, J. A., 133 (N), 219 (N) Henderson, R., 368 (R) Hill, J. A., 1 (A), 489 (n), 779 (n) Hoffman, F. L., 782 (n) Holmes, G. K, 363 (R) Holzinger, K. J., 919 (n) Huhn, R. von, 1000 (N) Hulst, M. M., 599 (A) Huntington, E. V., 859 (A) Jacobson, M., 350 (n) Jones, F. W., 347 (n) Karsten, K. G., 253 (A) KeUey, T. L., 743 (A), 826 (A) King, W. I., 842 (A), 926 (R) Knauth, O. W., 666 (R) Knibbs, G. H., 177 (A) Kopf, E. W., 216 (R), 217 (R), 650 (n),

801 (R), 1038 (R) Little, C. C, 1018 (n) Lotka, A. J., 998 (N) March, L., 629 (N) McCall, W. A., 941 (R)

McEwen, G. F., 606 (A) Mann, L. B., 1013 (n) Meeker, R., 909 (N) Meriam, L., 235 (A), 936 (R), 1040 (R) Mitchell, W. C, 661 (R) Moritz, R. E., 622 (N) Newcomer, M., 976 (A) Newsholme, A., 121 (R), 689 (A), 815

(A) Nutting, M. A., 650 (n) Ogburn, W. F., 519 (R) Outwater, O. E., 492 (n) Owens, F. W., 958 (A) Pearl, R., 221 (N) Phelps, R. F., 495 (n) Phillips, F. M., 929 (R) Pogue, J. E., 953 (A) Pollock, H. M., 625 (N) Reed, L. J., 665 (R), 666 (R) Riefler, W. W., 804 (R) Robinson, L. M., 157 (A), 805 (R) Rorty, M. C, 154 (A), 487 (N), 560 (A) Secrist, H. A., 45 (A) Shaw, J. P., Jr., 335 (N) Simpson, K, 796 (R) Smith, J. R., 671 (R) Snodgrass, K., 326 (N), 776 (n) Steiner, W. H., 426 (A), 786 (n) Steuart, W. M., 569 (A) Stewart, W. W., 305 (A), 795 (R) Streightoff, F. H., 670 (R) Sturges, H. A., 778 (n) Sydenstricker, E., 522 (R), 584 (A),

842 (A) Tryon, F. G., 314 (A), 802 (R) Watkins, G. P., 515 (R) Weglein, D. E., 371 (R) Westergaard, H., 381 (A) Weyforth, W. O., 506 (R), 668 (R),

1035 (R) Whitney, J., 441 (A) White, R. L., 215 (R) Willcox, W. F., 1020 (n) Williams, F. M., 638 (N), 732 (A), 915

(n) Williams, J. H., 1028 (R) Williamson, K. M., 451 (A) Willis, H. P., 794 (R), 1033 (R) Wolfe, S. H., 509 (R) Wolman, A., 188 (A) Wolman, L., 128 (R) Woodbury, R. M., 125 (R), 345 (n),

780 (n), 920 (n) Working, H., 765 (N)

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