Title: Statistical papers of George Udny Yule /
Authors: Yule, G. Udny 1871-1951; Stuart, Alan, 1922-1998; Kendall, Maurice G. 1907-1983
Publisher: Hafner Pub. Co.,
Year: 1971
Subjects: Statistics
Contents: George Udny Yule, 1871-1951, by M.G. Kendall --On the association of attributes in statistics: with illustrations from the material of the childhood Society, etc. --Notes on the theory of association of attributes in statistics. --On the theory of correlation for any number of variables, treated by a new system of notation. --On the distribution of deaths with age when the causes of death act cumulatively, and similar frequency distributions. --On the method of measuring association between two attributes. --The statistics of anti-typhoid and anti-cholera inoculations, and the interpretation of such statistics in general. --On the statistical interpretation of some bacteriological methods employed in water analysis. --An inquiry into the natureof frequency distributions representative of multiple happenings with particular reference to the occurence of multiple attacks of disease or of repeated accidents. --On the time-correlation problem, with especial referenceto the variate-difference correlation method. --Why do we sometimes get nonsense-correlations between time series? A study in sampling and the nature of time-series. --On a method of investigating periodicities in disturbed series, with special reference to Wolfer's sunspot numbers. --On a method of studying time-series based on thier internal correlations.