Statistical Methods for Research Workers

THE volume under review is the fourth edition, revised and enlarged, of a “Biological Monograph” first published in 1925. As the editors point out, “Conspicuous progress is now being seen in the field of general physiology, of experimental biology and in the application of biological principles to economic problems”. This involves the analysis of large masses of data by statistical methods, in the process of which, solutions to many complex problems have to be sought. Stimulus is thus given to purely mathematical researches, upon which the methods dealt with in the book are based. The aim of the author is to apply accurate tests to practical data by systematically attacking small sample problems on their merits. No attempt is therefore made to prove rigorously the various propositions upon which the theory rests; for these the reader is referred to an excellent bibliography at the end.Statistical Methods for Research Workers.By Dr. R. A. Fisher. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xiv + 307. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1932.) 15s. net.

[1]  R. A. Fisher,et al.  039: The Theory of the Mechanical Analysis of Sediments by Means of the Automatic Balance. , 1925 .

[2]  M. Young,et al.  The Interrelationships of the Physical Measurements and the Vital Capacity , 1923 .

[3]  R. Fisher.  The Resemblance between Twins, a Statistical Examination of Lauterbach's Measurements. , 1925, Genetics.

[4]  H. Hotelling.  Applications of the Theory of Error to the Interpretation of Trends , 1929 .

[5]  R. Fisher,et al.  Limiting forms of the frequency distribution of the largest or smallest member of a sample , 1928, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

[6]  J. Huxley.  Further Data on Linkage in Gammarus Chevreuxi; and its Relation to Cytology , 1923 .

[7]  J. A. Harris.  ON THE CALCULATION OF INTRA-CLASS AND INTER-CLASS COEFFICIENTS OF CORRELATION FROM CLASS MOMENTS WHEN THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS IS LARGE , 1913 .

[8]  R. Fisher,et al.  STUDIES IN CROP VARIATION , 2009 .

[9]  P. Walmsley,et al.  Statistical Method , 1923, Nature.

[10]  G. Udny Yule,et al.  On the Application of the χ 2 Method to Association and Contingency Tables, with Experimental Illustrations , 1922 .

[11]  A. H. Hersh.  The effect of temperature upon the heterozygotes in the bar series of Drosophila , 1924 .

[12]  R. Fisher.  THE EFFECT OF METHODS OF ASCERTAINMENT UPON THE ESTIMATION OF FREQUENCIES , 1934 .

[13]  J. Bispham.  An experimental determination of the distribution of the partial correlation coefficient in samples of thirty , 1920 .

[14]  J. Frew.  ON CHLOROPS TAENIOPUS MEIG. (THE GOUT FLY OF BARLEY) , 1924 .

[15]  R. Fisher.  034: The Conditions Under Which x2 Measures the Discrepancy Between Observation and Hypothesis. , 1924 .

[16]  R. Fisher.  035: The Distribution of the Partial Correlation Coefficient. , 1924 .

[17]  H. Gray,et al.  Athletic performance as a function of growth: Speed in sprinting , 1935 .

[18]  O. Tedin.  The Influence of Systematic Plot Arrangement upon the Estimate of Error in field Experiments. , 1931, The Journal of Agricultural Science.

[19]  W. Elderton,et al.  TABLES FOR TESTING THE GOODNESS OF FIT OF THEORY TO OBSERVATION. , 1902 .

[20]  W. B. Mercer,et al.  The Experimental Error of Field Trials , 1911, The Journal of Agricultural Science.

[21]  K. Pearson.  On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated System of Variables is Such that it Can be Reasonably Supposed to have Arisen from Random Sampling , 1900 .

[22]  Ronald Aylmer Sir Fisher,et al.  020: The Goodness of Fit of Regression Formulae and the Distribution of Regression Coefficients. , 1922 .

[23]  N. Shaw.  The air and its ways , 1923 .

[24]  A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF HOMOTYPOSIS: DATA FROM THE LEGUME CERCIS CANADENSIS , 1916 .

[25]  John C. Blakeman.  ON TESTS FOR LINEARITY OF REGRESSION IN FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS , 1905 .

[26]  F. Yates,et al.  110: The 6 x 6 Latin Squares. , 2022 .

[27]  A Genetic Study of Certain Chlorophyll Deficiencies in Maize. , 1927, Genetics.

[28]  Greenwood,et al.  The Statistics of Anti-Typhoid and Anti-Cholera Inoculations, and the Interpretation of Such Statistics in General , 1915, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine.

[29]  Rory A. Fisher,et al.  Probability likelihood and quantity of information in the logic of uncertain inference , 1934 .

[30]  R. A. Fisher,et al.  Note on Dr. Burnside's recent paper on errors of observation , 1923 .

[31]  T. Eden.  Studies in the Yield of Tea. I. The Experimental Errors of Field Experiments with Tea , 1931, The Journal of Agricultural Science.

[32]  R. A. Fisher,et al.  Studies in crop variation: IV. The experimental determination of the value of top dressings with cereals , 1927, The Journal of Agricultural Science.

[33]  Rory A. Fisher,et al.  Studies in crop variation. I. An examination of the yield of dressed grain from Broadbalk , 1921, The Journal of Agricultural Science.

[34]  ON THE EXISTENCE OF DAILY CHANGES IN THE BACTERIAL NUMBERS IN AMERICAN SOIL , 1927 .

[35]  R. Fisher.  Professor Wright on the Theory of Dominance , 1934, The American Naturalist.

[36]  Note on the numerical evaluation of a Bessel function derivative , 1925 .

[37]  Rory A. Fisher,et al.  The accuracy of the plating method of estimating the density of bacterial populations: with particular reference to the use of Thornton's agar medium with soil samples , 1922 .