Introduction to medical biometry and statistics / by Raymond Pearl.

  • Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940.
Date:
1930
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Credit: Introduction to medical biometry and statistics / by Raymond Pearl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The changes which have been made in this edition have as their purpose the better adaptation of the book for class-room teaching of the elements of statistical methods useful in the biostatistical and medical fields. These changes have taken the form of additions, omissions, and rearrangements of the material. To a considerable extent the book has been rewritten. On account of the widespread interest in the matter at the present time a chapter has been added dealing with the logistic curve. As before, I am deeply indebted and grateful to my colleagues for help in the preparation of this volume: especially to Prof. Lowell J. Reed and to Dr. John Rice Miner. Their suggestions, advice, and criticism have been invaluable, and they have also given much aid in matters of computation, etc. To the artist of the staff of the Department of Biology, Mr. Arthur Johannsen, I am indebted for the new illustrations, and to Miss Hermine Grimm for help in the details of manuscript preparation and proof-reading. Two former students, Dr. R. B. Tewksbury and Dr. T. J. LeBlanc, have been helpful with critical suggestions for the revision. I am very grateful to Prof. Haven Emerson of Columbia University and Dr. T. F. Murphy, Chief Statistician for Vital Statistics of the Census Bureau, for help in getting the new material incorporated in Chapter III. I am obliged to the Macmillan Company for per- mission to reprint in modified form the material in Chapter I under the heading “The Nature of Statistical Knowledge” from an earlier book, “Modes of Research in Genetics/’ of which that company owns the copyright. Finally to my old and dear friends G. Udny Yule, F. R. S., and Major Greenwood, F. R. S., I am deeply grate- ful for their permission to reproduce their portraits in this volume. Raymond Pearl. October, 1930.