Robert James Minnitt

Sir Robert James Johnstone, B.A., M.B., F.R.C.S.ENG

IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death of Sir Robert John-stone, at Newcastle, Co. Down, after a relatively short and trying illness. It is impossible in one short article to recapitulate the scope and extent of his many activities, and a brief summary must suffice. Seldom has it been granted to one man to achieve so many distinctions, and to adorn so many high offices. A C...

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ROBERT JAMES PRICE for the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Journal of Statistics Education, v17n1: Robert M. Pruzek and James E. Helmreich

A standard topic in many Introductory Statistics courses is the analysis of dependent samples. A simple graphical approach that is particularly relevant to dependent sample comparisons is presented, illustrated and discussed in the context of analyzing five real data sets. Each data set to be presented has been published in a textbook, usually introductory. Illustrations show that comprehensive...

LINA ERIKSSON, JAMES MAHMUD RICE and ROBERT E. GOODIN TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF LIFE SATISFACTION

Time pressure is a familiar phenomenon. The quantity of spare time people have clearly effects their satisfaction with their leisure and with their life as a whole. But so too, we show, does how much control people have over how much spare time they have. We measure this through an indicator of ‘discretionary time’, which proves to be equally or more important than spare time itself in these co...

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a chair, he was the very picture of dejection. His small head was hanging, an obstreperous tuft of the coarse, sandy hair standing defiantly upright on the crown of it; his complexion was sallow and pasty, and not in any way enhanced by a sparse scattering of tiny yellow freckles, plainly visible at close view; his generous mouth drooped, like his head, the lips pale, but firmly closed. In his ...