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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION VOLUME 50 SEPTEMBER, 1955 NUMBER 271
ARTICLES Statistics and Objective Economics . . . . MORRIS A. COPELAND 639 Federal Trade Commission Report on Changes in Concentration in Manu-
facturing .M. A. ADELMAN 660 Colonial Social Accounting .WILLIAM 0. JONES 665 Concepts Employed in Labor Force Measurements and Uses of Labor- Force
Data . A. Ross ECKLER, GERTRUDE BANCROFT, AND ROBERT PEARL 677 Examination of Two Sources of Error in the Estimation of Net Internal
Migration .DANIEL 0. PRICE 689 The Redesign of the Census Current Pop llation Survey
MORRIs H. HANSEN WILLIAM N. HiURWITZ, HAROLD NISSELSON, AND JOSEPH STEINBERG 701
Sampling Methods in the Yugoslav 1953 Census of Population 720 . . S. S. ZARKOVId 720
On Adjusting Sample Tabulations to Census Counts. .M. A. EL-BADRY AND F. F. STEPHAN 738
The Application of Sampling Procedures to Business Operations HOWARD L. JONES 763
Estimation of the Brazilian Coffee Harvest by Sampling Survey W. L. STEVENS 775
On the Reliability of Responses Secured in Sample Surveys .ROBERT FERBER 788
The Cochran-Mosteller-Tukey Report on the Kinsey Study: A Symposium .ALFRED C.
KINSEY AND ASSOCIATES HERBERT HYMAN AND PAUL B. SHEATSLEY; A. H. HOBBS AND R. D. LAMBERT; NICHOLAS PASTORE AND JACOB GOLDSTEIN; LEWIS M. TERMAN; PAUL WALLIN; W. ALLEN WALLIS; AND WILLIAM G. COCHRAN, FREDERICK MOSTELLER, AND JOHN W. TUKEY 811
The Efficiency of Double Sampling for Attributes H. C. HAMAKER AND R. VAN STRIK 830
Generality of Confidence Intervals for a Regression Function. .EDWIN L. CROW 850
Distributions of Solutions of a Set of Linear Equations (With an Applica- tion to Linear Programming) .M. M. BABBAR 854
Estimation of Parameters from Incomplete Data . FREDERIC M. LORD 870
Truncated Binomial and Negative Binomial Distributions. PAUL R. RIDER 877
Restriction and Selection in Samples from Bivariate Normal Distributions A. CLIFFORD COHEN, JR. 884
Comparison of Some Non-parametric Tests against Normal Alternatives with an Application to Life Testing . . . . BENJAMIN EPSTEIN 894
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On the Distribution of a Positive Random Variable Having a Discrete Probability Mass at the Origin .JOHN AITCHISON 901
Increasing the Effective Length of Short Time-Series for the Purpose of Estimating Autoregressive Parameters . . ABBOTT S. WEINSTEIN 909
On Generalizations of Tchebychef's Inequiality . . . H. J. GODWIN 923 The Randomization Theory of Experimental Inference.
.OSCAR KEMPTHORNE 946 Statistical Abstracts .968
BOOK REVIEWS COCHRAN, WILLIAM G., MOSTELLER, FREDERICK, AND TUKEY, JOHN W.,
Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report . ALFRED C. KINSEY, et al. 811 DEANE, PHYLLIS, Colonial Social Accounting . . . WILLIAM 0. JONES 665 KEMPTHOIBNE, OSCAR, The Design and Analysis of Experiments
.GEORGE E. P. Box 974 BLISS, C. I., AND CALHOUN, D. W., An Outline of Biometry
.H. FAIRFIELD SMITH 975 KEMPTHORNE, O., BANCROFT, T. A., GOWEN, J. W., AND LUSH, J. L.,
Editors, Statistics and Mathematics in Biology . . J. H. BENNETT 979 BENNETT, CARL A., AND FRANKLIN, NORMAN L., Statistical Analysis in
Chemistry and the Chemical Industry . . . . F. R. H1MSWORTH 980 ANDERSON, OSKAR, Probleme der Statistischen Methodenlehre in den Sozial-
wissenschaften .WERNER Z. HIRSCH 984 LOhVE, MICHEL, Probability Theory .WALTER L. SMITH 986 RAND CORPORATION, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal
Deviates .987 HOXIE, R. GORDON, et al., A History of the Faculty of Political Science,
Columbia University .WILLIAM R. PABST, JR. 988 ENRICK, NORBERT LLOYD, Quality Control Through Statistical Methods
ROBERT J. HADER 989 PADLEY, RICHARD, Editor, City of Birmingham Abstract of Statistics Number
3, 1952-1954 . DE VER SHOLES 990 CARTTER, ALLEN MURRAY, The Redistribution of Income in Postwar Britain
SELMA F. GOLDSMITH 992 TUCK, R. H., An Essay on the Economic Theory of Rank
.ROBERT M. SOLOW 995 WORKING, ELMER J., Demand for Meat .J. A. NORDIN 996 GALENSON, WALTER, Labor Productivity in Soviet and American Industry
.SIMON ROTTENBERG 1000
GRUENBERGER, FRED, Diagrams in Punched Card Computing . R. ZIOLA 1001 RIOS, SIXTO, Introducci6n a los m4todos de la estadistica (Segunda parte)
PAUL R. HALMOS 1002 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, National Income-1954 Edi-
tion-A Supplement to the Survey of Current Business .1003
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1955 OFFICERS, AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
President RALPH J. WATKINS
RENSIS LIKERT
W. J. DIXON CHURCHILL EISENHART
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R. E. COMSTOCK BESSE B. DAY
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WILLIAM 0. JONES
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JOHN C. MCKEE
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CONRAD TAEUBER
W. ALLEN WALLIS
KENNETH B. WILLIAMS
SEYMOUR L. WOLFBEIN
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