An introduction to the theory of statistics/ G. Udny Yule and M.G. Kendall

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Theory of attributes: basic ideas -- Association of attributes -- Manifold classification -- Frequency-distributions -- Averages and other measures of location -- Measures of dispersion -- Moments and measures of skewness and kurtosis -- Three important theoretical distributions: the binomial, the normal, and the poisson -- Correlation and regression -- Normal correlation -- Further theory of correlation -- partial correlation -- Correlation and regression: some practical problems -- Miscellaneous theorems involving the correlation coefficient -- Simple curve fitting -- Preliminary notions on sampling -- The sampling of attributes: large samples -- The sampling of variables: large samples -- The sampling of variables: large samples continued -- the Chi-square distribution -- The sampling of variables: small samples -- The analysis of variance -- Some problems of practical sampling -- Interpolation and graduation -- Index numbers -- Time-series -- Time-series(2)