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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]
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
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Tippett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
G. H. Jowett Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods
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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
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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
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Ilersic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
E. Devons Book Reviews: \em The Sources and Nature
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E. D. Van Rest Book Reviews: \em The Methods of
Statistics, by L. H. C. Tippett . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
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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
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
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O. L. Davies Book Reviews: \em Advanced Statistical
Methods in Biometric Research, by C.
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Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Statistical Theory
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L. H. C. Tippett Book Reviews: \em Statistical Tables for
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F. C. Turner Book Reviews: \em Statistical Tables and
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Seymour Melman Production and Administration Cost in
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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
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E. D. Van Rest Book Reviews: \em Methods of Statistical
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E. D. van Rest Book Reviews: Statistical Design and
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G. H. Jowett Book Reviews: \em Associated
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D. G. Beech Book Reviews: \em 50--100 Binomial
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C. Nuttall Book Reviews: \em International Trade
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
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
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C. A. Moser Book Reviews: \em Social Accounts of
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E. A. G. Knowles Book Reviews: \em Exercises in
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
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
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J. F. Hinsley Book Reviews: \em Statistical Methods in
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L. T. Wilkins Book Reviews: \em Statistical Inference,
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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
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Anonymous Study Section of the Royal Statistical
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D. R. Read Book Reviews: \em The Design and
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O. L. Davies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
O. L. Davies Book Reviews: \em Biometrika Tables for
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Marjorie Jessop Reservoirs of Infection of Pulmonary
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Geoffrey H. Jowett Multiple Regression Between Variables
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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
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L. H. C. Tippett Book Reviews: \em Handbook of Graphic
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M. S. Bartlett Book Reviews: A Concise History of
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Christopher T. Saunders Current Trends in National Income
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Roland Harper Fundamental Problems in the Subjective
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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
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Geoffrey M. Clarke A Design for Testing Several Treatments
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S. C. Harland Book Review: \em Biomathematics: The
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G. H. Ross Goobey The Use of Statistics in the Investment
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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
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Dorothy E. Cole Field Work in Sample Surveys of
Household Income and Expenditure . . . . 49--61
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R. L. Plackett Questions and Answers . . . . . . . . . 63--64
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Stanley F. James Some Sampling Problems in Connection
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Norman Theodore Gridgeman A Tasting Experiment . . . . . . . . . . 106--112
Robert Ferber Are Correlations any Guide to Predictive
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Martin K. Barnett and
Frank C. Mead, Jr. A 2 4 Factorial Experiment in Four
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Erik K. Leander and
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Norman T. J. Bailey Statistics in Hospital Planning and
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W. Neil Jessop Monte Carlo Methods and Industrial
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Noel Williams The Allocation of Scarce Materials
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Rita J. Maurice Industrial Censuses in Great Britain and
the United States . . . . . . . . . . . 177--194
William A. Belson A Technique for Studying the Effects of
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Michael Healy and
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Ann Cartwright The Effect of Obtaining Information from
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Emil Kay and
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Anthony G. Baker Analysis and Presentation of the Results
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Raymond Chittleburgh and
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William Stannage Use of Regression Analysis to Detect
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