Notes on Vital Statistics of American Cities

Notes on Statistics

h. t-Test: This is one of the most powerful and widely used statistical tests. The ttest (Student's t) is used to calculate the confidence intervals of a measurement when the population standard deviation ()) is not know. Which is usually the case. The t-test is also used to compare two averages. The t-test corrects for the uncertainty of the sample standard deviation (s) caused by taking a sma...

Interpretation of Vital Statistics

The field of vital statistics is as open to investigation, analysis and experimentation as it was three hundred years ago when John Graunt (1620 -1674) introduced the observations on the London Bills of Mortality. The research possibilities are sometimes overlooked by statisticians and demographers because the registration systems now established in developed countries seem routinized and steri...

Principles of Vital Statistics

rain, m.u. i aie univcrsny, ruuaueipma and London : W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd. 1923. Pp. 258. Price, 12s. 6d. net. This small volume is an essay for the practising physician and health worker rather than a text-book for the public health student. As it deals with American statistical data which are differently recorded from those of England, the book is not adapted for teaching in India or Englan...

Lecture Notes on Quantum Statistics

Preface These notes are meant to form the material for an introductory course on quantum statistics at the graduate level, aimed at mathematical statisti-cians and probabilists. No background in physics (quantum or otherwise) is required. They are still far from complete. Quantum statistics as we mean it here is statistical inference based on data obained from measurement of a quantum system. T...

The Elements of Vital Statistics