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Proceedings of the First Session of the Indian Statistical Conference held in Calcutta January 1938

1938

Ilis E;xeellencv the Lord 13rahournc accompanied l v the President of the Conference the Chaiman of the Reception Cotmnittee and time Vice-h'(esidu is and (1)0!cc-hearers of the fudian Statistical Institute entered the Senate hall in procession. [...] 'hlie cicvelopment of exact tests of signficance had been based on the solution of what arc known as distribution prol lenis and this in time led to _ the theory of estinmtiutt which solves the problem what is the best method of arranging or combining the data in hand so as to elicit the best information on some tlelinitc issue." Through the very fruitful concept of the quantity of informati [...] hcscribing the methods of compilation of vital statistics he was mf opinion that nu an nveragc 3"THE FIRST SESSION OF THE INDIAN STATISTICAL CONFERENCE the inaccuracy was probably of the order of twenty per cent due to omission of registration and ertip}tasized the great importance of the study of population problems in India. [...] \Ve are fortunate in having as the President of the first session of the Conference a scholar of the eminence of Professor Ronald Fisher the second to adorn the most ill ortant Chair in Statistics in the whole world the first occupant having been Karl Pearson himself. [...] S. In the original sense of the word `Statistics' was the science of Stat craft ; to the political arithnidician of the eighteenth century its function was to be the eyes and ears of the central government.
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Pages
307
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141480
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii P.C. Mahalanobis view
General Report
1-18 P.C. Mahalanobis view
Theoretical Statistics
19-94 unknown view
Agricultural Statistics
95-102 unknown view
Experimental Field Trials
103-150 unknown view
Public Health and Medicine
151-180 unknown view
Economic Statistics
181-250 unknown view
Standardisation in Industry
251-258 unknown view
Supplement
259-300 unknown view

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