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Volume 1, Number 1, March, 1952
Volume 1, Number 2, June, 1952
Volume 1, Number 3, November, 1952
Volume 2, Number 1, March, 1953
Volume 2, Number 2, June, 1953
Volume 2, Number 3, November, 1953
Volume 3, Number 1, March, 1954
Volume 3, Number 2, June, 1954
Volume 3, Number 3, November, 1954
Volume 4, Number 1, March, 1955
Volume 4, Number 2, June, 1955
Volume 4, Number 3, November, 1955
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 1956
Volume 5, Number 2, June, 1956
Volume 5, Number 3, November, 1956
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 1957
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 1957
Volume 6, Number 3, November, 1957
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 1958
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 1958
Volume 7, Number 3, November, 1958
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1959
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1959
Volume 8, Number 3, November, 1959


Applied Statistics
Volume 1, Number 1, March, 1952

                      Anonymous   Forward  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
             Bernard P. Dudding   The Introduction of Statistical Methods
                                  to Industry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--20
                 Albert W. Swan   A Statistician Looks at The
                                  International Management Congress of
                                  1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
              Leslie T. Wilkins   Estimating the Social Class of Towns . . 27--33
                 Thomas Corlett   A Use for the Jury Qualification in
                                  Sample Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
             Charles Wainwright   A Statistical Approach to the
                                  Specification of Plastics  . . . . . . . 37--44
                Hans J. Eysenck   Uses and Abuses of Factor Analysis . . . 45--49
             Geoffrey H. Jowett   The Accuracy of Systematic Sampling from
                                  Conveyor Belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--59
                  G. Salter and   
              L. T. Wilkins and   
                   G. H. Jowett   Questions and Answers  . . . . . . . . . 60--62
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 65--73
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
                  L. T. Wilkins   Book Review: \em Facts from Figures, by
                                  M. J. Moroney  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [3]

Applied Statistics
Volume 1, Number 2, June, 1952

                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
                   Peter R. Cox   Estimating the Future Population . . . . 82--94
             George V. Dyke and   
               Emily P. Simpson   A Collaborative Investigation into
                                  Methods of Chemical Analysis of Ground
                                  Pyrethrum Flowers  . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105
                Roy G. D. Allen   Index Numbers of Retail Prices 1938--51  106--117
               William Spendley   Calibration of an Integrating Gas
                                  Flowmeter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--125
                Bernard T. Ramm   The Measurement of Branch Sales
                                  Performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--130
              William N. Jessop   One Line or Two? . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--137
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 140--144
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
                   O. L. Davies   Book Reviews: \em Technological
                                  Applications of Statistics, by L. H. C.
                                  Tippett  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods
                                  for Chemists, by W. J. Youden  . . . . . 148--148

Applied Statistics
Volume 1, Number 3, November, 1952

            Norman T. J. Bailey   The Scope of Medical Statistics  . . . . 149--162
                  Joan Keen and   
                  Denys J. Page   A Study of the Lives of Pots Used in
                                  Making Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
            Robert N. Wadsworth   The Experience of a User of a Consumer
                                  Panel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
                Jack Hebden and   
             Geoffrey H. Jowett   The Accuracy of Sampling Coal  . . . . . 179--191
               W. F. F. Kemsley   Estimating Individual Expenditure from
                                  Family Totals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--201
        Leroy P. V. Johnson and   
              Ernest S. Keeping   Composite Mean Squares and Their Degrees
                                  of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--205
              E. Shankleman and   
                   O. L. Davies   Questions and Answers  . . . . . . . . . 206--207
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 210--210
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [2]


Applied Statistics
Volume 2, Number 1, March, 1953

                Dudley A. Clark   The Census of Distribution . . . . . . . 1--12
                  Joan Keen and   
                  Denys J. Page   Estimating Variability from the
                                  Differences Between Successive Readings  13--23
            John Douglas Butler   Short-Term Fluctuations in Petroleum
                                  Consumption  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--29
                Andrew Muir and   
                  Frank Downton   A Statistical Approach to a Problem of
                                  Chemical Manufacture . . . . . . . . . . 30--38
           Orville O. Price and   
               Alfred J. McKeon   A Comparison of Serial Number Digit
                                  Sampling with Systematic and Random
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
            Maurice S. Bartlett   Stochastic Processes or the Statistics
                                  of Change  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--64
             E. D. Van Rest and   
                   W. J. Martin   Questions and Answers  . . . . . . . . . 65--66
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 68--69
                   O. L. Davies   Book Reviews: \em The Design and
                                  Analysis of Experiments, by Oscar
                                  Kempthorne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
                   H. S. Booker   Book Reviews: \em Statistics and Their
                                  Application to Commerce. 10th Edition,
                                  by A. Lester Boddington and A. R.
                                  Ilersic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
                      E. Devons   Book Reviews: \em The Sources and Nature
                                  of the Statistics of the United Kingdom.
                                  Volume I, by M. G. Kendall . . . . . . . 71--72
                 E. D. Van Rest   Book Reviews: \em The Methods of
                                  Statistics, by L. H. C. Tippett  . . . . 72--72
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [2]

Applied Statistics
Volume 2, Number 2, June, 1953

                Donald G. Beech   Experiences of Correlation Analysis  . . 73--85
                Eric Shankleman   Economic Forecasting in Great Britain    86--100
         Cyril Davenport Hughes   Statistics and Prediction  . . . . . . . 101--106
             Douglas F. Vincent   The Orgin and Development of Factor
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--117
          David G. Champernowne   The Economics of Sequential Sampling
                                  Procedures for Defectives  . . . . . . . 118--130
            J. L. Nicholson and   
               W. F. F. Kemsley   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 136--137
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
                      Anonymous   Study Circle on Medical Statistics:
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 140--140

Applied Statistics
Volume 2, Number 3, November, 1953

             Edward D. Van Rest   Quality Control in the USA . . . . . . . 141--151
                    Henry Palca   An Experiment in the Sampling of
                                  Agricultural Returns . . . . . . . . . . 152--159
                  Stafford Beer   A Technique for Standardising Massed
                                  Batteries of Control Charts  . . . . . . 160--165
         Wladyslaw Z. Billewicz   An Index of the Volume of Net Exports    166--171
                  Clifford Pugh   The Evaluation of Detergent Performance
                                  in Domestic Dishwashing  . . . . . . . . 172--179
                  Noel Williams   The Use of Samples in Auditing . . . . . 180--183
                Robert E. Peake   Planning an Experiment in a Cotton
                                  Spinning Mill  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--192
                 Thomas Corlett   A Change in the Proportion of Jurors . . 193--195
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 197--199
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
                   O. L. Davies   Book Reviews: \em Advanced Statistical
                                  Methods in Biometric Research, by C.
                                  Radhakrishna Rao . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Theory
                                  with Engineering Examples, by A. Hald    203--203
               L. H. C. Tippett   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Tables for
                                  Biological, Agricultural and Medical
                                  Research, by Ronald A. Fisher and Frank
                                  Yates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
                   F. C. Turner   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Tables and
                                  Formulas, by A. Hald . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em An Introduction to
                                  Statistical Calculations, by J. Mounsey  204--204
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [2]


Applied Statistics
Volume 3, Number 1, March, 1954

                 Seymour Melman   Production and Administration Cost in
                                  Relation to Size of Firm . . . . . . . . 1--11
           Anthony G. Baker and   
         Kenneth W. Hillier and   
             Robert H. Woodward   An Analysis of the Results of a Visual
                                  Test of Textile Yarn . . . . . . . . . . 12--18
              Percy G. Gray and   
                 Ann Cartwright   Who Gets the Medicine? . . . . . . . . . 19--28
                    Alan Stuart   Too Good to be True? . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
                Simon Broadbent   Some Uses of the Nomogram in Statistics  33--43
          Armand Peter Ruderman   A Neglected Point in the Construction of
                                  Price Index Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
                   Peter Robson   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
                Philip Lyle and   
                  E. Shankleman   Questions and Answers  . . . . . . . . . 52--54
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 55--57
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
                 E. D. Van Rest   Book Reviews: \em Methods of Statistical
                                  Analysis, by C. H. Goulden . . . . . . . 59--59
                 E. D. van Rest   Book Reviews: Statistical Design and
                                  Analysis of Experiments for Development
                                  Research, by Donald Statler Villars  . . 59--60
                   O. L. Davies   Book Reviews: \em The Design and
                                  Analysis of Experiment, by M. H.
                                  Quenouille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em Associated
                                  Measurements, by M. H. Quenouille  . . . 61--62
               G. H. Jowett and   
                      M. Hodges   Book Reviews: \em The Tools of Social
                                  Science, by John Madge . . . . . . . . . 62--62
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em 50--100 Binomial
                                  Tables, by Harry G. Romig  . . . . . . . 63--63
                     C. Nuttall   Book Reviews: \em International Trade
                                  Statistics, by R. G. D. Allen and J.
                                  Edward Ely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [1]
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]

Applied Statistics
Volume 3, Number 2, June, 1954

               David J. Desmond   Quality Control on the Setting of
                                  Voltage Regulators . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
             Conrad E. V. Leser   The Measurement of Elasticities of
                                  Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
                Eric Shankleman   What is Econometrics?  . . . . . . . . . 85--89
            Elsie A. G. Knowles   Experiments with a Random Selector as an
                                  Aid to the Teaching of Statistics  . . . 90--103
               F. D. K. Liddell   The Measurement of Daily Variations in
                                  Absence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--111
           Rupert Thomas Leslie   Investigation of Errors of Observation   112--115
                    Philip Lyle   The Construction of Nomograms for Use in
                                  Statistics: Part I. True and Empirical
                                  Nomograms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--125
                   R. F. Fowler   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 130--132
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
                     E. Elliott   Book Reviews: \em Tables for Aptitude
                                  Testers, by A. G. Arbous . . . . . . . . 134--134
                    C. A. Moser   Book Reviews: \em Social Accounts of
                                  Local Authorities, by J. E. G. Utting    134--135
               E. A. G. Knowles   Book Reviews: \em Exercises in
                                  Theoretical Statistics, by M. G. Kendall 135--136
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]

Applied Statistics
Volume 3, Number 3, November, 1954

            Norman T. J. Bailey   Queueing for Medical Care  . . . . . . . 137--145
         Cyril Davenport Hughes   Accuracy in Statistics . . . . . . . . . 146--149
                Gareth Horsnell   The Determination of Single-Sample
                                  Schemes for Percentage Defectives  . . . 150--158
        Adrian Garth Arbous and   
           Herbert Simon Sichel   The Use of Estimates of
                                  Absence-Proneness for Guiding Executive
                                  Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--173
             Conrad E. V. Leser   Production Functions for the British
                                  Industrial Economy . . . . . . . . . . . 174--183
                    Philip Lyle   The Construction of Nomograms for Use in
                                  Statistics: Part II. The Graphical
                                  Analysis of the Results of a Factorial
                                  Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--195
               Freda Conway and   
                   W. T. Osborn   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 196--198
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 200--201
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
                  J. F. Hinsley   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods in
                                  Electrical Engineering, by D. A. Bell    204--204
                     A. W. Swan   Book Reviews: \em Le Contrôle Statistique
                                  des Fabrications, by R. Cave . . . . . . 205--205
                  L. T. Wilkins   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Inference,
                                  by H. M. Walker and J. Lev . . . . . . . 206--207
                   D. R. Davies   Book Reviews: \em Mathematics in Action,
                                  by O. G. Sutton  . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
                      Anonymous   Other Publications Received  . . . . . . 208--208
                      A. Stuart   Book Reviews: \em Sampling Theory of
                                  Surveys with Applications, by Pandurang
                                  V. Sukhatme  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [1]
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [7]


Applied Statistics
Volume 4, Number 1, March, 1955

                  Stafford Beer   The Productivity Index in Active Service 1--14
                 Albert W. Swan   A Method of Graphing Sales Figures for
                                  Executive Use  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--21
                  Noel Williams   An Application of Linear Programming to
                                  the Selection of Raw Materials . . . . . 22--31
             Geoffrey H. Jowett   The Comparison of Means of Industrial
                                  Time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--46
               G. P. Davies and   
                    G. W. Sears   Some Makeshift Methods of Analysis
                                  Applied to Complex Experimental Results  47--63
                   Itasu Sakura   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
                 E. D. van Rest   Question and Answer  . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 67--69
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
                     D. R. Read   Book Reviews: \em The Design and
                                  Analysis of Industrial Experiments, by
                                  O. L. Davies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
                   O. L. Davies   Book Reviews: \em Biometrika Tables for
                                  Statisticians, Volume I, by E. S.
                                  Pearson and H. O. Hartley  . . . . . . . 72--72
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [4]

Applied Statistics
Volume 4, Number 2, June, 1955

                Marjorie Jessop   Reservoirs of Infection of Pulmonary
                                  Tuberculosis in Warwickshire . . . . . . 73--79
             Geoffrey H. Jowett   Multiple Regression Between Variables
                                  Measured at the Points of a Plane Sheet  80--89
              P. A. Daniell and   
               F. D. K. Liddell   Calculation by Accumulation  . . . . . . 90--96
         Wladyslaw Z. Billewicz   A Simple Non-Parametric Graphical Test
                                  for the Significance of a Difference . . 97--102
                   John Wishart   Multivariate Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 103--116
                     A. Glaskin   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 122--125
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em Elements of
                                  Statistics, by H. C. Fryer . . . . . . . 127--127
               L. H. C. Tippett   Book Reviews: \em Handbook of Graphic
                                  Presentation, by Calvin F. Schmid  . . . 127--127
                    C. A. Moser   Book Reviews: \em The Design of Social
                                  Research, by R. L. Ackoff  . . . . . . . 128--129
                 E. D. Van Rest   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Analysis
                                  in Chemistry and the Chemical Industry,
                                  by Carl A. Bennett and Norman L.
                                  Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
               L. H. C. Tippett   Book Reviews: \em Quality Control
                                  Through Statistical Methods, by Norbert
                                  Lloyd Enrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
               L. H. C. Tippett   Book Reviews: \em Productivity, a
                                  Critique of Current Usage, by Lewis A.
                                  Maverick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
                 M. S. Bartlett   Book Reviews: A Concise History of
                                  Mathematics, by D. J. Struik . . . . . . 131--131
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 132--132

Applied Statistics
Volume 4, Number 3, November, 1955

        Christopher T. Saunders   Current Trends in National Income
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144
                  Roland Harper   Fundamental Problems in the Subjective
                                  Appraisal of Foodstuffs  . . . . . . . . 145--161
                David J. Liston   Sales Forecasting: An Evaluation of Some
                                  Practical Results  . . . . . . . . . . . 162--172
                John H. Hepburn   Level of Quality for Minimum Cost of
                                  Manufacture of a Specification . . . . . 173--182
                Eric Shankleman   Measuring the Readership of Newspapers
                                  and Magazines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194
                Bernard T. Ramm   The Determination of Branch Staff
                                  Establishments in a Multiple Shop
                                  Organisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--198
             Geoffrey M. Clarke   A Design for Testing Several Treatments
                                  Under Controlled Environmental
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--206
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 208--210
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 212--212
                  S. C. Harland   Book Review: \em Biomathematics: The
                                  Principles of Mathematics for Students
                                  of Biological Science, by Cedric A. B.
                                  Smith  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [2]


Applied Statistics
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 1956

              G. H. Ross Goobey   The Use of Statistics in the Investment
                                  of Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                     David Hill   Modified Control Limits  . . . . . . . . 12--19
                   Frank Sandon   A Regression Control Chart for Use in
                                  Personnel Selection  . . . . . . . . . . 20--31
                  Roland Harper   Factor Analysis as a Technique for
                                  Examining Complex Data on Foodstuffs . . 32--48
                Dorothy E. Cole   Field Work in Sample Surveys of
                                  Household Income and Expenditure . . . . 49--61
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
                 R. L. Plackett   Questions and Answers  . . . . . . . . . 63--64
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 65--66
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
                 R. L. Plackett   Book Reviews: \em Chance and Choice by
                                  Cardpack and Chessboard. Volume 2, by
                                  Lancelot Hogben  . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods
                                  for Research Workers, by Ronald A.
                                  Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em An Introduction to
                                  Stochastic Processes, by M. S. Bartlett  70--70
                  E. Shankleman   Book Reviews: \em Population Statistics
                                  and their Compilation, by Hugh H.
                                  Wolfenden  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 72--72
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]

Applied Statistics
Volume 5, Number 2, June, 1956

                  Percy G. Gray   Examples of Interviewer Variability
                                  Taken from Two Sample Surveys  . . . . . 73--85
               Stanley F. James   Some Sampling Problems in Connection
                                  with Accounting Records  . . . . . . . . 86--105
      Norman Theodore Gridgeman   A Tasting Experiment . . . . . . . . . . 106--112
                  Robert Ferber   Are Correlations any Guide to Predictive
                                  Value? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
          Martin K. Barnett and   
             Frank C. Mead, Jr.   A 2 4 Factorial Experiment in Four
                                  Blocks of Eight: A Study in Radioactive
                                  Decontamination  . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--131
            Erik K. Leander and   
                David J. Finney   An Extension of the Use of the
                                  $\chi^2$-Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--136
                   G. H. Jowett   Question and Answer  . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
                      Anonymous   Industrial Applications Section of the
                                  Royal Statistical Society  . . . . . . . 139--139
                      Anonymous   Study Section of the Royal Statistical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
                 M. S. Bartlett   Book Reviews: \em Stochastic Models for
                                  Learning, by R. R. Bush and F. Mosteller 141--141
                J. E. G. Utting   Book Reviews: \em Contributions of
                                  Survey Methods to Economics, by George
                                  Katona, Lawrence R. Klein, John B.
                                  Lansing and James N. Morgan  . . . . . . 141--143
                  L. T. Wilkins   Book Reviews: \em The Communication of
                                  Ideas, by T. Cauter and J. S. Downham    143--144
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em Handbook of Industrial
                                  Engineering and Management, by W. G.
                                  Ireson and E. L. Grant . . . . . . . . . 144--144
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [1]
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]

Applied Statistics
Volume 5, Number 3, November, 1956

            Norman T. J. Bailey   Statistics in Hospital Planning and
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--157
                 W. Neil Jessop   Monte Carlo Methods and Industrial
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--165
                  Noel Williams   The Allocation of Scarce Materials
                                  Between Products . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--176
                Rita J. Maurice   Industrial Censuses in Great Britain and
                                  the United States  . . . . . . . . . . . 177--194
              William A. Belson   A Technique for Studying the Effects of
                                  a Television Broadcast . . . . . . . . . 195--202
              Michael Healy and   
             Michael Westmacott   Missing Values in Experiments Analysed
                                  on Automatic Computers . . . . . . . . . 203--206
                 K. S. Banerjee   A Comment on the Construction of Price
                                  Index Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
            Norman T. J. Bailey   Book Reviews: \em Prediction Methods in
                                  Relation to Borstal Training, by Hermann
                                  Mannheim and Leslie T. Wilkins . . . . . 215--216
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 216--216
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em Correlated Random
                                  Normal Deviates, by E. C. Fieller, T.
                                  Lewis and E. S. Pearson  . . . . . . . . 216--216
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
                      Anonymous   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [1]
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [5]


Applied Statistics
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 1957

                    L. R. Klein   The Scope and Limitations of
                                  Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                 Ann Cartwright   The Effect of Obtaining Information from
                                  Different Informats on a Family
                                  Morbidity Inquiry  . . . . . . . . . . . 18--25
                   Emil Kay and   
                 Eric Duckworth   Linear Programming in Practice . . . . . 26--39
                       R. Tulse   Sampling for Variables with a Very Skew
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--44
               Anthony G. Baker   Analysis and Presentation of the Results
                                  of Factorial Experiments . . . . . . . . 45--55
       Raymond Chittleburgh and   
                       Alec Lee   A Problem in Production Control  . . . . 56--62
               William Stannage   Use of Regression Analysis to Detect
                                  Errors in Measurement of Intermediate
                                  Materials in a Multi-Stage Process . . . 63--66
               Edward F. Brayer   Calculating the Standard Error of a
                                  Proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Societ . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
             Cedric A. B. Smith   Book Reviews: \em Experimental Design
                                  and Its Statistical Basis, by D. J.
                                  Finney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
                 C. T. Saunders   Book Reviews: \em Guide to New Zealand
                                  Official Statistics, by E. P. Neale  . . 74--74
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: Curso de Estadistica:
                                  Volume I, Estadistica Descriptiva y
                                  Modelo Matematico, by Enrique Chacon . . 74--75
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: Nellie Landblom's Copybook
                                  for Beginners in Research Work, by
                                  Nellie T. Landblom . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
              Leslie T. Wilkins   Book Reviews: A Primer of Social
                                  Statistics, by S. M. Dornbusch and C. F.
                                  Schmid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
               L. H. C. Tippett   Book Reviews: \em Dynamic Factors in
                                  Industrial Productivity, by Seymour
                                  Melman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
                     C. Nuttall   Book Reviews: \em The Classification and
                                  Coding of Accounts, by J. M. S. Risk . . 78--78
                   Frank Sandon   Book Reviews: \em The Essentials of
                                  Educational Statistics, by Francis G.
                                  Cornell  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
                   G. A. Coutie   Book Reviews: \em The Theory of Games
                                  and Linear Programming, by S. Vajda  . . 79--80
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [4]

Applied Statistics
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 1957

               George E. P. Box   Evolutionary Operation: A Method for
                                  Increasing Industrial Productivity . . . 81--101
                 Stephen Lipton   Some Statistical Applications of
                                  Electronic Computers . . . . . . . . . . 102--113
            Wendy M. Gibson and   
             Geoffrey H. Jowett   `Three-Group' Regression Analysis: Part
                                  I. Simple Regression Analysis  . . . . . 114--122
                 Kathleen Gales   Discriminant Functions of Socio-Economic
                                  Class  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--132
              S. James Morrison   The Study of Variability in Engineering
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138
                  Percy G. Gray   A Sample Survey with Both a Postal and
                                  an Interview Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 139--153
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
               L. H. C. Tippett   Book Reviews: \em Statistics: A New
                                  Approach, by W. Allen Wallis and Harry
                                  V. Roberts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
                       S. Burke   Book Reviews: \em Statistics and Their
                                  Application to Commerce. 11th Edition,
                                  by A. R. Ilersic . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--159
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 160--160
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em Guide to Elementary
                                  Statistical Formulas, by Robert E.
                                  Johnson and Doris N. Morris  . . . . . . 160--160

Applied Statistics
Volume 6, Number 3, November, 1957

                 John C. Tanner   The Sampling of Road Traffic . . . . . . 161--170
                 Peter G. Moore   Normality in Quality Control Charts  . . 171--179
                 Alexander Barr   Differences Between Experienced
                                  Interviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--188
            Wendy M. Gibson and   
             Geoffrey H. Jowett   `Three-Group' Regression Analysis: Part
                                  II. Multiple Regression Analysis . . . . 189--197
             Rolfe C. Tomlinson   A Simple Sequential Procedure to Test
                                  Whether Average Conditions Achieve a
                                  Certain Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--207
                Kenneth W. Kemp   An Optical Periodograph for Use in the
                                  Analysis of Continuous Measurements  . . 208--213
                  Colin Stevens   Confidence Limits for the Range of a
                                  Search Radar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--222
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
                 C. T. Saunders   Book Reviews: \em National Income
                                  Visualized, by Arthur O. Dahlberg  . . . 225--226
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods
                                  and Scientific Inference, by Ronald A.
                                  Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
                   P. D. Oldham   Book Reviews: A Dictionary of
                                  Statistical Terms, by Maurice G. Kendall
                                  and William R. Buckland  . . . . . . . . 227--228
                  W. J. Corlett   Book Reviews: \em The Lognormal
                                  Distribution, With Special Reference to
                                  Its Uses in Economics, by J. Aitchison
                                  and J. A. C. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods in
                                  Research and Production, With Special
                                  Reference to the Chemical Industry.
                                  Third Edition, by O. L. Davies . . . . . 230--231
                 J. A. Rowntree   Book Reviews: \em The 1953 Pilot
                                  Population Census for the First
                                  Population Census in Sudan . . . . . . . 231--232
                      Anonymous   Publication Received . . . . . . . . . . 232--232
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [3]


Applied Statistics
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 1958

             Peter Armitage and   
                   G. Isley and   
                      C. Ingram   Studies in the Variability of Two
                                  Blood-Clotting Test  . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                Rita J. Maurice   Official Statistics of Economic Trends   15--24
                 John K. Friend   Probits: An Application to Observational
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--41
                David C. Duncan   Statistics of An Auction Sale  . . . . . 42--47
            Edwin Mansfield and   
                 Harold H. Wein   A Regression Control Chart For Cost  . . 48--57
                  Percy G. Gray   Initial Letters of Surnames  . . . . . . 58--59
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
                  Stafford Beer   Book Reviews: \em The Rationalization of
                                  Industrial Decision Processes, by
                                  William T. Morris  . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
                  Stafford Beer   Book Reviews: \em The Reduction and
                                  Presentation of Experimental Results, by
                                  J. T. Richardson . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
                 E. D. Van Rest   Book Reviews: Proceedings of the Third
                                  Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical
                                  Statistics and Probability. Vol. V.
                                  Econometrics, Industrial Research, and
                                  Psychometry, by J. Neyman  . . . . . . . 67--68
                   A. M. Walker   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Analysis
                                  of Stationary Time Series, by U.
                                  Grenander and M. Rosenblatt  . . . . . . 68--70
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em The Fascination of
                                  Numbers, by W. J. Reichmann  . . . . . . 70--70
                 F. T. M. Smith   Book Reviews: \em Numerical Methods, by
                                  R. A. Buckingham . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
                    C. J. Anson   Book Reviews: \em Introduction to
                                  Statistical Inference, by Jerome C. R.
                                  Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 72--72
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [4]

Applied Statistics
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 1958

                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
                Eric Shankleman   The Economist and His Statistics . . . . 76--85
                Simon Broadbent   Simple Mortality Rates . . . . . . . . . 86--95
                    Andrew Muir   Marginal Cost  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
            Norman T. J. Bailey   A Simple Approach to the Minimisation of
                                  Store-Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--113
             Geoffrey H. Jowett   Factor Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--125
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
                     C. Nuttall   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Sources
                                  for Market Research  . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
              Philip J. Stanley   Book Reviews: \em Introduction to
                                  Statistical Reasoning, by Philip J.
                                  McCarthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 132--132
                   W. N. Jessop   Book Reviews: \em Regression Analysis of
                                  Production Costs and Factory Operations.
                                  (Third Edition), by Philip Lyle and
                                  Leonard H. C. Tippett  . . . . . . . . . 132--132

Applied Statistics
Volume 7, Number 3, November, 1958

          Leonard H. C. Tippett   A Guide to Acceptance Sampling . . . . . 133--148
                Hugo C. Hamaker   Some Basic Principles of Sampling
                                  Inspection by Attributes . . . . . . . . 149--159
                 James Morrison   The Lognormal Distribution in Quality
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--172
    William Alexander Glenn and   
             Clyde Young Kramer   Analysis of Variance of a Randomised
                                  Block Design with Missing Observations   173--185
                  D. V. Lindley   Professor Hogben's `Crisis' --- A Survey
                                  of the Foundations of Statistics . . . . 186--198
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
                        A. Barr   Book Reviews: \em Social Aspects of
                                  Prescribing, by J. P. Martin . . . . . . 201--202
                 E. D. Van Rest   Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods in
                                  Quality Control, by Dudley J. Cowden . . 202--203
                   F. G. Foster   Book Reviews: \em An Introduction to
                                  Probability Theory and its Applications,
                                  Volume 1 (2nd Edition), by William
                                  Feller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 204--204
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [3]


Applied Statistics
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1959

               Geoffrey Newbery   Some Aspects of Quality Control in
                                  Cotton Textiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
                  G. H. Freeman   The Use of the Same Experimental
                                  Material for More than One Set of
                                  Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20
                  Denis H. Ward   Elimination of Bias in the Preliminary
                                  Examination of Data  . . . . . . . . . . 21--25
             A. S. C. Ehrenberg   The Pattern of Consumer Purchases  . . . 26--41
                 K. S. Banerjee   Choice of Conversion Factor in the
                                  Derivation of an Index of a Discontinued
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
               Sidney Rosenbaum   A Significance Chart for Percentages . . 45--52
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
                   B. P. Emmett   Book Reviews: \em Motivation Research,
                                  by Harry Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em Multivariate
                                  Correlation Analysis, by Philip H.
                                  DuBois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
                   P. D. Oldham   Book Reviews: \em The Mathematical
                                  Theory of Epidemics, by N. T. J. Bailey  60--61
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em The Advanced Theory of
                                  Statistics. Volume 1, Distribution
                                  Theory, by Maurice G. Kendall and Alan
                                  Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
                   B. P. Emmett   Book Reviews: \em Sampling Opinions: An
                                  Analysis of Survey Procedure, by
                                  Frederick F. Stephan and Philip J.
                                  McCarthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
               R. R. P. Jackson   Book Reviews: \em Queues, Inventories
                                  and Maintenance: The Analysis of
                                  Operational Systems with Variable Demand
                                  and Supply, by Philip M. Morse . . . . . 63--63
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 64--64
                   M. G. Bulmer   Book Reviews: \em Fundamentals of
                                  Statistical Reasoning, by M. H.
                                  Quenouille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [4]

Applied Statistics
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1959

              William A. Belson   Matching and Prediction on the Principle
                                  of Biological Classification . . . . . . 65--75
                 I. D. Hill and   
            Gareth Horsnell and   
              Bernard T. Warner   Deferred Sentencing Schemes  . . . . . . 76--91
              Percy G. Gray and   
              Elizabeth A. Parr   The Length of Cigarette Stubs  . . . . . 92--103
                  Denis H. Ward   The Use of Edge-Punched Cards in
                                  Statistical Computation  . . . . . . . . 104--113
               W. F. F. Kemsley   Designing a Budget Survey  . . . . . . . 114--123
                     E. S. Page   Pseudo-Random Elements for Computers . . 124--131
                      I. D. Hil   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of the Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
                   G. H. Jowett   Book Reviews: \em The Analysis of
                                  Multiple Time-Series, by M. H.
                                  Quenouille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
                  L. T. Wilkins   Book Reviews: A Course in Multivariate
                                  Analysis, by Maurice G. Kendall  . . . . 135--136
                   Frank Sandon   Book Reviews: A First Course in
                                  Statistics, by R. Loveday  . . . . . . . 136--137
                   Frank Sandon   Book Reviews: \em Principles of
                                  Statistical Techniques, by P. G. Moore   136--137
                  L. T. Wilkins   Book Reviews: \em Survey Methods in
                                  Social Investigation, by Claus A. Moser  137--139
                  W. J. Corlett   Book Reviews: \em Economic Arithmetic,
                                  by Robin Marris  . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--142
                    P. G. Lucas   Book Reviews: \em Operational Research
                                  in Practice, by Max Davies and Michel
                                  Verhulst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
                  W. J. Corlett   Book Reviews: \em Applied Statistics for
                                  Economists, by P. H. Karmel  . . . . . . 142--143
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em Application of
                                  Statistics to Paper Testing  . . . . . . 143--144
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 144--144

Applied Statistics
Volume 8, Number 3, November, 1959

                  John S. James   A Statistical Approach to Stores
                                  Auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--157
                      Ronald Ma   The Age Structure of Quoted Public
                                  Companies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--167
                John R. Ashford   A Problem of Subjective Classification
                                  in Industrial Medicine . . . . . . . . . 168--185
         A. S. C. Ehrenberg and   
                   J. M. Shewan   A Reliability Study of Sensory
                                  Assessments. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--195
               Michael Chisholm   Shipping Costs and the Terms of Trade:
                                  Australia and New Zealand  . . . . . . . 196--201
                  Denis H. Ward   Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly
                                  Tolerances for Coke Quality  . . . . . . 202--209
                Hugo C. Hamaker   Adjusting Single Sampling Plans for
                                  Finite Lot Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--214
                      Anonymous   Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
                      Anonymous   Meetings of Sections of The Royal
                                  Statistical Society  . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
                H. C. Mackenzie   Book Reviews: \em Introduction to
                                  Agricultural Economic Analysis, by C. E.
                                  Bishop and W. D. Toussaint . . . . . . . 219--220
                    Lilli Stein   Book Reviews: \em Recent Studies in
                                  Epidemiology, by J. Pemberton and H.
                                  Willard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
                  Stafford Beer   Book Reviews: \em What Is Cybernetics?,
                                  by G. T. Guilbaud  . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
                    D. G. Beech   Book Reviews: \em Planning of
                                  Experiments, by D. R. Cox  . . . . . . . 222--222
                   B. P. Emmett   Book Reviews: \em Television and the
                                  Child, by Hilde T. Himmelweit, A. N.
                                  Oppenheim and Pamela Vince . . . . . . . 222--223
                   T. M. Ridley   Book Reviews: \em Business Budgets and
                                  Accounts, by Harold C. Edey  . . . . . . 224--224
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [1]
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . [2]