Statistical Sentence Examples

In general theory special studies by other men cannot play the same part as they do in historical and statistical work.

The statistical contrasts are especially sharp and characteristic when we take into account the chronological sequence in the elaboration of laws.

After 1867 great activity was displayed in history and its allied branches, owing to the direct encouragement given by the Hungarian Historical Society, and by the historical, archaeological, and statistical committees of the academy.

These institutions were the means of collecting a vast amount of statistical and general information connected with agriculture, and by their publications and premiums made known the practices of the best-farmed districts and encouraged their adoption elsewhere.

This university was founded in 1621 and the university of Buenos Aires in 1821, but although Bonpland and some other European scientists were members of the faculty of Buenos Aires in its early years, neither there nor at Cordoba was any marked attention given to the natural sciences until President Sarmiento (official term, 1868-1874) initiated scientific instruction at the university of Cordoba under the eminent German naturalist, Dr Hermann Burmeister (1807-1892), and founded the National Observatory at Cordoba and placed it under the direction of ' There are two distinct statistical offices compiling immigration returns and their totals do not agree, owing in part to the traffic between Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

General statistical information, and improvements in the metallurgy, &c., are recorded annually in The Mineral Industry.

During thirty years the Monthly was conducted by Sir Richard Phillips, under whom it became more statistical and scientific than literary.

His father, Edward Wakefield (1774-1854), author of Ireland, Statistical and Political (1812), was a surveyor and land agent in extensive practice; his grandmother, Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832), was a popular author for the young, and one of the introducers of savings banks.

Under the conditions we have described, many of the most interesting problems of our own time, when they are once defined, resolve themselves into statistical inquiries.

In another respect also he aided in establishing an exact science of medicine by the introduction of the numerical or statistical method.

It is evident that the characteristics of the factory age to which reference is made above would have acted upon native British as upon any other stock; and that it has universally so acted there is abundant statistical evidence, in Europe and even in a land of such youth and ample opportunities as Australia.

Then you ask the computer for any other statistical anomalies between these two populations.

The enormous number of dated documents has induced some scholars to attempt a statistical research into the observance of the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th and 19th days of the months as Sabbaths.

Mechanical, commercial, economic and statistical facts (the latter usually involving the time-relation) afford numerous examples.

While it is impossible to give here anything like a complete or exact survey of the field - a task rendered almost impossible by the arbitrary manner in which paragraphs are divided, by the difficulty of making Old English enactments fit into modern rubrics, and by the necessity of counting several times certain paragraphs bearing on different subjects - a brief statistical analysis of the contents of royal codes and laws may be found instructive.

No proper statistical basis for estimating the quotas existed, and the device gave each state a plausible reason for attempting secession on occasion.

The success which crowned his efforts was so great that in 1854 he was induced to enter the government service, as chief of the newly instituted statistical department.

He founded at Dresden the first Mortgage Insurance Society (Hypotheken-Versicherungsgesellschaft), and as a result of the success of his work was summoned in 1860 to Berlin as director of the statistical department, in succession to Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici (1790-1859).

Engel was a voluminous writer on the subjects with which his name is connected, but his statistical papers are mostly published in the periodicals which he himself established, viz.

It will be seen that the commercial1789-1818consult Adam Seyberts Statistical Annals (Philadelphia, 1818), which are based upon official documents, a large part of which are no longer in existence.

If, however, we are to take statistical returns for what they are worth, it is estimated that the Christians in heathen lands gathered by Protestant missions probably amount to five millions, and a similar total may be ascribed to Roman Catholic missions, making ten millions in all.

The figures are for 1907 and should be compared with those in the Statistical Atlas.

From 1778 to his death he exercised a great power in the statistical and critical departments of letters.

Jens Peter Trap (1810-1885) concluded his great statistical account of Denmark in 1879.

Selection and its results can be adequately studied only in those cases which admit of statistical tabulation.

Edgeworth, in two papers on " The Statistics of Examinations " and the " Element of Chance in Competitive Examinations " (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1888 and 1890), has dealt with the subject, although on somewhat limited lines.

Moreover, the looseness of his statements and the rashness of his inferences regarding statistical averages make him, as a great authority has remarked, the enfant terrible of moral statisticians.

A review of Indian trade by the director-general of the statistical department in India is annually presented to parliament, and there- Exports.

Although the parallaxes hitherto measured have added greatly to our general knowledge of stellar distances and absolute luminosities of stars, a collection of results derived by various observers choosing specially selected stars is not suitable for statistical discussion.

But the two theories lead to a very different statistical distribution of the stellar motions.

These theories, however, being supported, according to the authorities of to-day, by no evidence, statistical or other, need not be here considered.

Amongst the numerous scientific associations are the central statistical department, and the Budapest communal bureau of statistics, which under the directorship of Dr Joseph de KiirOsy has gained a European reputation.

Until the hypothesis has been thoroughly tested by an examination of the line-of-sight velocities of stars from the same point of view, this physical interpretation must be received with some degree of caution; but there can be no doubt of the reality of the anomalies in the statistical distribution of proper motions of the stars, and of these it offers a simple and adequate explanation.

The general name is applied by the natives only to the roughly triangular main trunk of the island, while the larger peninsulas, the landward extremities of which taper to narrow necks of land, are considered to be as distinct from Riigen as the various adjacent smaller islands which are also included for statistical purposes under the name.

In the able statistical discussions in the reports of the United Free Church it is pointed out that in the figures furnished by the churches the numbers of members and the numbers of deaths are not in the same proportion as the population of the country and the general death-rate, and the conclusion is drawn that the number of members is in each case too great.

P. P. Semenov's Geographical and Statistical Dictionary (5 vols., St Petersburg, 1863-85) contains a full bibliography of the Volga and tributaries.

Physicians and physiologists have frequently discussed celibacy from their professional point of view; but it will be sufficient to note here the results of statistical inquiries.

Lastly, statistical research has shown that the children of the married British clergy have been distinguished far beyond their mere numerical proportion.8/n==Authorities== - Henry Charles Lea, History of Sacerdotal Celibacy (3rd ed., 1907, 2 vols), is by far the fullest and best work on this subject, though a good deal of important matter omitted by Dr Lea may be found in Die Einfiihrung der erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit by the brothers Johann Anton and Augustin Theiner, which was put on the Roman Index, though Augustin afterwards became archivist at the Vatican (Altenburg, 1828, 2 vols.).

Of the deaths in any place the only check obtainable is from the public body-washers, but many corpses areburied without the aid of the public body-washers; and the population of the place not being accurately known, the number of deaths, however correct, is useless for statistical purposes.

His principal book, Historical and Statistical Information respecting the Indian Tribes of the United States, illustrated with 336 plates from original drawings, in part a compilation, was issued under the patronage of Congress in six quarto volumes, from 1851 to 1857.

This paper does not appear to have attracted much attention either in 1862 or on its publication four years later in the Journal of the Statistical Society; and it was not till 1871, when the Theory of Political Economy appeared, that Jevons set forth his doctrines in a fully developed form.

A South African Customs Statistical Bureau, which deals with the external trade of British South Africa,' was established in July 1905.

Numerous official reports, chiefly statistical, are published periodically in Lisbon; a few are written in French, the majority in Portuguese.

The foreign trade of Bolivia is comparatively unimportant, but the statistical returns are incomplete and unsatisfactory; the imports of 1904 aggregated only £1,734,551 in value, and the exports only £1,851,758.

He contributed largely to several scientific periodicals, and was instrumental in founding the Astronomical (1820) and Statistical (1834) Societies.

Notwithstanding the continuous pressure of an active business life he found time to contribute largely many valuable articles to the magazines and newspapers, and took an active part in the proceedings of the Royal Statistical Society (of which he was one of the honorary secretaries, editor of its journal, and in1869-1871president) and the Political Economy Club.

The first class comprehends those upon which his fame chiefly rests; for although he did not possess the genius of D'Anville, he may be regarded as the creator of modern Statistical Geography.

To draw a trustworthy conclusion it is necessary that the spot should be quiescent, show a well-developed and fairly symmetrical penumbra, and be observed near the limb and also near the centre, and these conditions are satisfied in so few cases as to withdraw all statistical force from the conclusion.

Some statistical authorities have adopted 12% as the rate, but this is too high for such a period.

A Statistical Register is issued yearly by the Cape government.

In the case of lists and schedules the numbers are only ordinals; but in the case of mathematical or statistical tables they are usually regarded as cardinals,though, when they represent values of a continuous quantity, they must be regarded as ordinals (§§ 26, 93).

On soil and agriculture, see Biennial Reports (Topeka, 1877 seq.) of the State Board of Agriculture; Experiment Station Bulletin of the Kansas Agricultural College (Manhattan); and statistics in the United States Statistical Abstract (annual, Washington), and Federal Census reports.

In 1829 he published An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia.

The legislative and statistical and especially the ritualistic parts belonging to P are so detailed and uninteresting that they make no impression on a reader's memory, and P's diffuseness, always undue, reaches a climax in chap. vii.

The number of stars is so vast that statistical methods can be applied to many of the characters which they exhibit - their spectra, their apparent and absolute luminosity, and their arrangement in space.

Subsistence peasant agriculture was not the subject of any systematic statistical surveys.

The Quarterly Bulletin will no longer contain a statistical annex.

The summary, main report and statistical annexes can be downloaded below.

Where reports are required for statistical purposes the data must be rendered anonymous.

A national register for hazards of donor apheresis is being maintained for statistical purposes by the Central Collator.

The concept of a fair bet has no relevance to statistical inference in science.

Particles with zero or integer spin are called bosons after Satyendra Bose, who together with Einstein described their kind of statistical mechanics.

The English average data for 1991 and 1998 is derived from a Department of Health statistical bulletin.

The rhetoric coming out of the vested interests becomes more bullish in spite of statistical data showing a downturn.

It uses cartograms and additional statistical views of a data set in an interactive environment for exploratory analysis.

The fit that gives the smallest relative value of reduced chi 2 is the best statistical fit.

They should be learning instead how to spot statistical chicanery.

The content addressed includes data analysis, correlation, the normal distribution, statistical inference and tests (including the chi-square and t-tests ).

Welcome to the 2002 web edition of UK Defense Statistics, the annual statistical compendium of the Ministry of Defense.

The book also assumes from the outset that the audience is already conversant with computer -based statistical packages.

The essence of the research was using powerful statistical techniques to search for potential ocean-atmosphere coupling in both modeled and observational data.

On closer examination, the algorithms show statistical weaknesses that might allow key recovery using differential cryptanalysis.

Coverage includes demography; international, local, national, official and regional statistics for social science; statistical theory.

The classical statistical methods are not applicable to Microarray data since the data is very high dimensional with very few replications.

Views or opinions based on general knowledge or belief should be clearly distinguished from views or opinions derived from the statistical analyzes being reported.

The government has typical patient visit enrollees in both from metropolitan statistical.

Research Paul's current research is concerned with developing and applying statistical and mathematical models for the vCJD epidemic in the UK.

These terms are frequently equated with the statistical terms " quantitative " and " qualitative " .

Do you have statistical evidence of achievement of different groups e.g. ethnicity / gender / age, across the subjects and particularly in Literacy?

The FAQ's section covers common ' gray areas ' within the realms of statistical geoscience.

Unfortunately samples of one don't give much statistical confidence, and will only give reliable information in a major holdup.

Currently I am on the editorial board of parasite immunology to give statistical advice to submitted papers.

The model's regime probabilities provide an optimal statistical inference of the turning point of the European business cycle.

But we may share with our Web site partners aggregated statistical " ratings " information about the use of /discuss journalism.

It can be solved analytically in terms of the statistical mechanics of spin lattices.

There is statistical evidence from a study conducted at Guy's Hospital in London, that it may improve libido.

An objectively measurable statistical comparison of performance Of the systems reviewed is not yet feasible.

Today, statistical mechanics lies at the heart of the physical sciences.

The candidate should ideally have experience in statistical data analysis and/or numerical modeling and in mountain meteorology.

Mathematics has changed the meaning of statistics - from concern with ' facts about society ' to statistical method.

You might wish to be part of an academic group which develops statistical methodology to be applied to medical research.

An advanced statistical technique for identifying multiple minima is used to find the minima of this function.

Whichever way you look at it the statistical molehill refuses to grow into a mountain.

Statistical analysis multivariate analyzes were done by Poisson regression with mortality as the dependent variable.

Over the years, statistical analyzes have certainly become more sophisticated but to such an extent that they increasingly obfuscate the process.

A data type was required that could hold the basic data structures that are used in the Genstat statistical package.

In statistical work, one needs to estimate these parameters from observations of the process.

Light rail patronage is published in an annual DfT statistical release for the year to the previous March, published five months later.

Appropriate statistical tests were made to compare the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia in the two groups.

Therefore what we need are statistical techniques that allow us to assign a probability to the outcome of an experiment.

Note The passage on inverse probability is reproduced in Likelihood and Probability in R. A. Fisher's Statistical Methods for Research Workers.

We present a statistical finite state model that combines prosodic, linguistic and punctuation class features.

Sir Richard said this finding did not show the power lines caused leukemia - he thinks this could be " a statistical quirk " .

Never have they been required to nor been able to produce a shred of statistical evidence to back up that claim.

Even on the basis of half a business cycle there is no statistical evidence of a UK productivity spurt.

These include statistical, mapping, graphical, sound, and moving image materials to name a few.

But we may share with our Web site partners aggregated statistical " ratings " information about the use of /discuss Journalism.

The winners are chosen on a purely statistical basis following an analysis of all the results in each category.

The service is also wholly responsible for sponsored research which is essentially statistical in nature.

This is important in the statistical thermodynamics of solids.

A statistical comparison of the spectral width with the flow reversal boundary has been conducted using three years of data.

The analysis of composite characters into their indivisible units and statistical inquiry into the behaviour of the units would seem to be a necessary part of biometric investigation, and one to which much further attention will have to be paid.

In 1904 it was estimated to be 143,000,000, and in 1906, according to a detailed estimate of the Central Statistical Committee, it was 149,299,300.

A closer examination will reveal further that the magnitude of these gaps varies a great deal; and Attempts to explain them were made in an article in the Economic Journal in December 1904, and in the paper already referred to read to the Royal Statistical Society.

Bartholomew of Edinburgh; (2) political maps, showing political boundaries; (3) ethnological maps, illustrating the distribution of the varieties of man, the density of population, &c.; (4) travel maps, showing roads or railways and ocean-routes (as is done by Philips' " Marine Atlas "), or designed for the special use of cyclists or aviators; (5) statistical maps, illustrating commerce and industries; (6) historical maps; (7) maps specially designed for educational purposes.

The record was so inaccurate that it had no statistical value until 1820, when the muster was taken after due preparation and with greater care, approximating to the system of a regular census.

Abbott's laborious From Letter to Spirit (1903), Joannine Vocabulary (1904) and Grammar (1906) overflow with statistical details and ever acute, often fanciful, conjecture.

Statistical inquiries as to the incidence of taxation or of particular taxes, though ideal or even approximate equality of a palpable arithmetical kind is practically unattainable by governments, are not altogether to be put aside.

The principles of statistical process control may be used to ensure that quality control parameters remain within defined limits and reduce losses.

Sir Richard said this finding did not show the power lines caused leukemia - he thinks this could be " a statistical quirk ".

Within this report the existing reefer fleet is given a statistical overview.

Some of the earliest work applying statistical methods in volcanology involved looking at the expected repose interval between volcanic eruptions.

This time it was based on statistical salami tactics.

Statistical significance does not transfer directly into clinical practice.

Fit Details The Add Sine Component Linear Fit Details adds a statistical breakdown of each sinusoid in the fit.

At present, a statistical formalization of snowball sample biases is not available (Van Meter, 1990).

This work attempts to apply statistical models such as the compound K-distribution to sonar imagery.

The focus here is on the detailed statistical analysis of the survey results.

A paper on statistical methods will follow in due course.

The statisticians in the department also provide a statistical advisory service.

This article compares the traditional statistical approach to our understanding of enzyme function with that of the opposing structuralist view.

Statistical tables are sometimes tabulated only for one-tailed hypotheses.

These chapters, stuffed full of tables and statistical results, are a bit tedious to read, and perhaps could have been shortened.

Elementary textbooks contain detailed discussions of the factors influencing power in a statistical test.

As a matter of statistical convenience it has been traditional to use what are called workforce based rates.

The course discusses directed and undirected graphical models, describing their properties and their statistical analysis.

The contest uses a VoteTracker scoring system, which tracks each vote from each judge and calculates the total votes as well as the statistical ratings.

Along came the Fair Isaac Corporation, an analysis and statistical corporation.

This method is a complex statistical model which helps predict the creditworthiness of consumers.

The companies store all of this information in databases that also house statistical findings on patterns in fraudulent behavior.

For statistical purposes, the date of a divorce is the date of filing of the initial petition in divorce court.

Unlike some fantasy sports, like baseball, which measure teams against one another, via an overall statistical system, fantasy football participants compete head-to-head each week.

When fantasy football began decades ago, magazines were the only providers of the statistical data, for which team owners hunger.

You'll be able to read the beginning of many excellent feature stories and statistical pages, but if you want the rest of the information, you'll have to subscribe to ESPN Insider.

Most, however, provide mainly statistical information, cheat sheets and pay leagues.

A fantasy basketball league that uses a rotisserie style is one that is based on total statistical points or average statistical points for a season.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-V) does not include compulsive lying as a unique disorder or diagnosis.

Additionally, the first version was missing certain important diagnostic criteria for Major Depressive Disorder found in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR).

You won't be able to find pathological lying in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR).

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) does not recognize lying as a mental disorder.

While the US News and World Report does not outline its exact ranking process, the entity uses a combination of expert assessment and statistical data to rank each school in its repertoire.

Depending on where you look, various statistical research states that the average dress size of an American woman is size 12 or size 14, and for men the average size is 44.

News reports and statistical data indicates that Americans rely too heavily on Social Security and inheritance to fund their retirement years and it's a faulty premise at best.

These cards had photos of players on one side, and statistical data on the player on the reverse side.

Anorexia nervosa was not officially classified as a psychiatric disorder until the third edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980.

Diagnosis is based on clinical criteria defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision C (DSM-IV-TR).

Alcoholism, or alcohol dependence, is described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as "A maladaptive pattern of alcohol use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress."

The statistical probability is that 50 percent of their children will be carriers themselves.

This statistical fact could be related to the above theory, in that these families may have cell antigens that more closely resemble streptococcal antigens than do members of other families.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) classifies narcolepsy as a sleep disorder in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IV.

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR) , the American Psychiatric Association distinguishes 16 different subtypes (or categories) of mental illness.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) defined four tic disorders in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IV.

A 2004 survey showed that nearly 14.8 percent of adult Americans met diagnostic criteria for personality disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Pervasive developmental disorders are diagnosed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which provides criteria for physicians to diagnose the specific type.

Early versions of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual included "runaway reaction" as a mental disorder.

Psychologists and psychiatrists typically use the criteria listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) as a guideline for diagnosis of bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.

Anatomical age is the numerical assessment of a child's physical growth in relation to the statistical average based on the child's chronological age.

Using statistical data, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institutes of Health in the United States have developed tables to illustrate the growth patterns of children.

Diagnosis is based on clinical criteria defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision C (DSM-IV-TR).

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), people with antisocial personality disorder demonstrate a pattern of antisocial behavior since age 15.

Its more precise classification is a result of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV) system for characterizing and diagnosing mental and behavioral disorders.

The census has evolved over the years, with more statistical information gathered.

While not frequently used by genealogists, they do have historical and statistical value.

You can find not only vital statistical information, but you may also learn some wonderful personal tidbits about an ancestor.

Computer programs allow families to keep digital records of ancestors' names, where they came from, and important statistical information.

Commercial mortgages are readily available to those who have done their homework and can provide statistical data that shows the purchase is a good business move; however, not all home mortgage lenders also make business property loans.

Forecasting interest rates involves a lot of statistical and historical analysis.

WebMD has statistical information on women who have conceived with an IUD.

It is impossible to say how many women have been able to use the chart with success as there have not been any large statistical studies done to support or refute the chart.

While I too have heard stories of people being high school or college sweethearts and marrying, although I find any statistical data that says this is how most couples meet.

They found no statistical connection between any improvements that could be attributed to the uniform code in the high school.

A statistical calculation of the probability that a person could correctly guess the right card by chance is 20% - 370 correct hits out of the 1850 trials.

These results have been debated during the centuries since, and the significance of the statistical variation remains in question even today.

The problems, as the critics point out, is that the statistical significance of the allegedly positive experimental results are so small as to be basically non-existent.

Additionally, such statistical variations could easily be accounted for by invalid or flawed research techniques or due to researcher bias.

Even in the cases where parapsychologists believe they can measure the phenomenon, that measurement is still one that's very statistical.

If you want to compare trends in consumer spending over time, you can look at complete statistical tables on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.

Difference Between provides a more detailed explanation of these key terms and how they relate to understanding statistical data.

Although it won't be included as a separate diagnosis in the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-V), many individuals have been labeled with Asperger's Syndrome.

There are five pervasive developmental disorders in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) including autism and PDD-NOS.

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorder, Fourth Edition, Revised Text (DSM IV-TR), refers to atypical autism as PDD-NOS.

Aspergers and Retts may be merged into autism in the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders in its fifth edition.Each of these conditions is a pervasive developmental disorder and each may be called autism.

There are five pervasive developmental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, also known as the DSM-IV.

The overall cost of home insurance will vary depending on several other factors including the location of the home and the statistical probability of natural disasters within the area.

The actuaries of Cigna use mathematical and statistical methods to estimate the risk involved with insuring groups and employees.

It is based on the statistical probability that the driver will file an insurance claim during the insurance period.

It is the statistical data that makes car insurance expensive for teenagers.

Regardless of this, however, insurance companies must base policy premiums not only on the individual teen but also on the historical statistical data presented by reliable sources.

The number comes from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a periodically revised guidebook containing all of the mental health issues recognized by the APA.

But because psychohistory works on statistical people en masse, it is presumed not to work against an anomalous person such as the Mule, who was a mutant.

After you enter the code, you can view the MySpace visitor's statistical data from your profile page.

He explored the remains of Babylon, and projected a geographical and statistical account of the pashalic of Bagdad.

Statistical inquiry into the facts of life has long been employed, and in particular Francis Galton, within the Darwinian period, has advocated its employment and developed its methods.

Schimper used the term xerophytes to include plants which live in soils which are physiologically dry, and the term hygrophytes those which live in soils which are physiologically wet or damp. Schimper recognized that the two classes are connected by transitional forms, and that it is useless to attempt to give the matter a statistical basis.

The general method by which this is effected in this and other cases is statistical.

On the whole, the best statistical source for this information is the annual computation published by the Archiv fiir Eisenbahnwesen, the official organ of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works; but the figure quoted above utilizes the Board of Trade returns for the United Kingdom and the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the United States.

He was also the author of many papers on general statistics and on life-tables for insurance, some read before the Royal Statistical Society, of which he was president in 1871 and 1872, some contributed to the Lancet and other periodicals.

A selection from his statistical writings was published in 1885 under the editorship of Mr Noel Humphreys.

After a highly useful career, under the presidency till 1813 of Sir John Sinclair, the Board of Agriculture was dissolved in 1819, but left in its statistical account, county surveys and other documents much interesting and valuable information regarding the agriculture of the period.

In the tabulation and interpretation of statistical evidence, as in its collection, it is scarcely possible to overrate the importance of wide knowledge and experience.

In many works, such as those of a statistical or historical character, there are frequently to be found passages which could have been written in no other period, but are only of the nature of ejaculations and do not affect the argument.

In historical and statistical investigation, or in special studies of particular subjects, it is possible, given the pecuniary means, to organize a whole army of skilled assistants, and with ordinary care to combine the results of their separate efforts.

The general theory which we require should be sketched in firm and clear outline, leaving the detailed qualifications of broad principles to special studies, where they can be dealt with if it is necessary or desirable, and examined by statistical and other tests.

Between 1882 and 1889 a series of papers on certain points in the electromagnetic theory of light and its relation to the various elastic solid theories appeared in the American Journal of Science, and his last work, Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, was issued in 1902.

The World's Commercial Cotton Crop. It is impossible to give an exact return of the total amount of cotton produced in the world, owing to the fact that in China, India and other eastern countries, in Mexico, Brazil, parts of the Russian empire, tropical Africa, &c., considerable - in some cases very large - quantities of cotton are made up locally into wearing apparel, &c., and escape all statistical record.

The ingenuity of the compiler is frequently taxed when called upon to illustrate graphically the results of statistical information of every description.

Consult the Boletin above mentioned, publications of the Estacion Central Agronomica, and current statistical serial reports of the treasury department (Hacienda) on natural resources, live-stock interests, the sugar industry (annual), &c.

The figures obtainable with respect to shipping are approximate, the statistical data not being altogether complete.

With characteristic versatility, he adopted the serious tone of the new age, and busied himself for the next twenty years with historical, philosophical and statistical writings.

A summary of them is annually published under the title Magyar statisztikai Evkonyo (Statistical Year-Book of Hungary).

In the absence of statistical returns it is impossible to give the values of this branch of trade.

A.-Cane sugar (compiled from the Weekly Statistical Sugar Trade Journal of Messrs Willett & Gray of New York, and books and reports published under the authority of the government of India).

Efforts have been almost unceasingly made since 1872 by statistical experts in periodical conference to bring about a general understanding, first, as to the subjects which may be considered most likely to be ascertained with approximate accuracy at a census, and secondly - a point of scarcely less importance - as to the form in which the results of the inquiry should be compiled in order to render comparison possible between the facts recorded in the different areas.

By prearrangement, no doubt, uniformity may be obtained in regard to most of the main statistical facts ascertainable at a census, at all events in the more advanced units of the empire, and proposals to this effect were made by the registrar-general of England and Wales in his report upon the figures for 1901.

The reports for New South Wales and Victoria are especially valuable in their statistical aspect from the analysis they contain of the vital conditions of a comparatively young community under modern conditions of progress.

The law under which the census of 1840 was taken contained a novel provision for the preparation in connexion with the census of statistical tables giving "such information in relation to mines, agriculture, commerce, manufactures and schools as will exhibit a full view of the pursuits, industry, education and resources of the country."

The eleventh census was taken under a law almost identical with that of the tenth, and extended through twenty-five large volumes, presenting a work almost as encyclopaedic, but much more distinctively statistical.

The law has allowed the Federal census office in its discretion to compile and publish the birth statistics of divisions in which they are accurately kept; one Federal report on the statistics of marriages and divorces throughout the country from 1867 to 1886 inclusive was published in 1889, and a second for the succeeding twenty-year period was published in part in 1908; an annual volume gives the statistics of deaths for about half the population of the country, including all the states and cities which have approximately complete records of deaths; Federal agencies like the bureau of labour and the bureau of corporations have been created for the purpose of gathering certain social and industrial statistics, and the bureau of the census has been made a permanent statistical office.

Congress has recently entrusted it with still further duties, and it has developed into the main statistical office of the Federal government, finding its nearest analogue probably in the Imperial Statistical Office in Berlin.

Here the undertakers (libitinarii), who carried out all funeral arrangements by contract, had their offices, and everything necessary was kept for sale or hire; here all deaths were registered for statistical purposes.

In the case of statistical data there is the further difficulty that there is no real continuity, since we are concerned with a finite number of individuals.

At present, besides the president, who has usually a seat in the cabinet,' and whose salary is 5000 a year, there is a parliamentary secretary with a salary of 1200, a permanent secretary (salary X1500, rising to £1800), and four assistant secretaries (each with a salary of i 200) for the harbour, marine, commercial, labour and statistical, and railway departments.

The Commercial, Labour and Statistical Department is the real remains of the original board of trade, as it combines the charge of the trade statistics with the general consultative duties with which King Charles II.'s board was originally entrusted.

The statistical work includes compiling abstracts, memoranda, tables and charts relating to the trade and industrial conditions of the United Kingdom, the colonies and foreign countries, the supervision of the trade accounts, the preparation of monthly and annual accounts of shipping and navigation, statistics as to labour, cotton, emigration and foreign and colonial customs, tariffs and regulations.

According to the statistical returns there were 139 administrative sub-districts where only Czech was spoken and 95 speaking only German, as opposed to only five bilingual ones.

He is, however, chiefly known by the statistical investigations which occupied him from 1823 onward.

In 1835 he published his principal work, Sur l'homme et le developpement de ses facultes, ou essai de physique sociale (2nd ed., 1869), containing a resume of his statistical researches on the development of the physical and intellectual qualities of man, and on the "average man" both physically and intellectually considered.

In these works he shows how the numbers representing the individual qualities of man are grouped round the numbers referring to the "average man" in a manner exactly corresponding to that in which single results of observation are grouped round the mean result, so that the principles of the theory of probabilities may be applied to statistical researches on the subjects.

Of horned cattle statistical returns show over two million head in the whole country.

Statistical data (lists of names, genealogies, and precise chronological notes) are a conspicuous feature in it.

A number of narratives, evidently written by prophets, and in many of which also (as those relating to Elijah, Elisha and Isaiah) prophets play a prominent part, and a series of short statistical notices, relating to political events, and derived probably from the official annals of the two kingdoms (which are usually cited at the end of a king's reign), have been arranged together, and sometimes expanded at the same time, in a framework supplied by the compiler.

Madoz was distinguished from most of the politicians of his generation by the fact that in middle life he compiled what is still a book of value - a geographical, statistical and historical dictionary of Spain and its possessions oversea, Diccionario geogra Pico, estadistico y historico de Espana, y sus posesiones de Ultramar (Madrid, 1848-1850).

Statistical returns, however, are somewhat incomplete and conflicting, and cannot be used with confidence.

See also the Statistical Register, Cape of Good Hope, issued yearly at Cape Town, and the Annual Report, Bechuanaland.

Most of this is summed up in the annual Statistical Year Book of Canada and in the Official Handbook of the Dominion of Canada, issued at frequent intervals by the Department of the Interior.

The census and statistics office, reorganized as a branch of the department of agriculture in 1905, undertakes a complete census of population, of agriculture, of manufactures and of all the natural products of the Dominion every ten years, a census of the population and agriculture of the three North-West Provinces every five years, and various supplemental statistical inquiries at shorter intervals.

The death of his mother in 1762 having deprived him of his means of support, he went in 1763 on the invitation of the pastor of the Lutheran community, Anton Friedrich Biisching, the founder of the modern historic statistical method of geography, to teach natural history in the Lutheran academy, St Petersburg.

Summing up the history of the papacy from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of the temporal power, one finds statistical gains in Protestant countries offset perhaps by relative losses in Catholic lands, both largely due to the closely related forces of toleration and immigration.

Out of his endeavours sprang a new organization, the China Inland ' For complete directory see Statistical Atlas of Foreign Missions (1910).

The reports on these subjects in eight volumes, together with a ninth volume giving the proceedings of the conference itself, and a statistical atlas, will for some time be the vade mecum of information on Christian missions, and precludes the need of any attempt at a bibliography here, an attempt which would indeed be doomed to failure.

His high reputation as a financial journalist and statistician, gained in these years, led to his appointment in 1876 as head of the statistical department in the Board of Trade, and subsequently he became assistant secretary (1882) and finally controllergeneral (1892), retiring in 1897.

In connexion with his position as chief statistical adviser to the government, he was constantly employed in drawing up reports, giving evidence before commissions of inquiry, and acting as a government auditor, besides publishing a number of important essays on financial subjects.

He was president of the Statistical Society (1882-1884); and after being made a C.B.

The average value of each article is fixed annually in Germany under the direction of the Imperial Statistical Office, by a commission of experts, who receive information from chambers of commerce and other sources.

For statistical information consult the reports on the censuses of 1897 and 1907, published by the Ministry of the Interior, Cairo, in 1898 and 1909.

He also wrote A Political Life of Sir Robert Peel (London, 1856); A Financial, Statistical and Monetary History of England from 1688 (London, 1847); Matter for Materialists (London, 1870); The Eve of St Mark, a Romance of Venice; and three dramas, The Statue Wife, Diocletian and Caius Marius, in addition to some fishing songs, and many contributions to various newspapers and periodicals.

The Statistical Annual for Finland - Statistisk Arsbok for Finland - published annually by the Central Statistical Bureau in Helsingfors, gives the necessary figures.

Therefore, with respect to Maths, 2002 can perhaps be regarded as a " statistical blip " on a gently falling trend.

I, Ben Gustefson, collated boring statistical figures while locked in a cramped cubical of a company that offered me no future potential.

Statistical Society (September 1872, March 1881); Report of a Committee appointed by the Treasury to investigate the causes of the increased cost of the Telegraphic Service, &c. (1875); Reports of the Postmaster-General for 1895, &c.; Journ.