 | 1834 - 408 lehte
...prospects of society, confining its attention to facts only, and, as far as possible, to such facts as can be stated numerically, and arranged in tables....and organize its general council in such a manner as to enable that council to deal conveniently with all the subdivisions of the subject-matter before... | |
 | 576 lehte
...careful exclusion of all opiiuoat; and to the preference, as far as may be possible, of such facts as can be stated numerically and arranged in tables....organize its general council" in such a manner as to enable that council to deal conveniently with all the subdivisions of the subject-matter before... | |
 | 1834 - 494 lehte
...the first and most essential rule of its conduct to confine its attention rigorously to facts, and, as far as it may be found possible, to facts which...can be stated numerically, and arranged in tables, did not feel justified in entering upon the consideration of the contents of this paper. EVENING —... | |
 | 1834 - 502 lehte
...the first and most essential rule of its conduct to confine its attention rigorously to facts, and, as far as it may be found possible, to facts which...can be stated numerically, and arranged in tables, did not feel justified in entering upon the consideration of the contents of this paper. EVENING —... | |
 | The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838 - 612 lehte
...arranging facts. This is statistics, if statistics is not arithmetic. Statists confine themselves as far as possible " to facts which can be stated numerically and arranged in tables." But a form of arrangement is not a science.* R. * We have seen quoted with great approbation a definition... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1841 - 348 lehte
...first, they propose " to confine their atten tion rigorously to facts — and, as far as it may b« found possible, to facts which can be stated numerically and arranged in tables." Now by this exclusion of all which cannot be stated numerically, we venture to affirm that an interdict... | |
 | Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) - 1873 - 508 lehte
...from its transactions and publications, — to confine its attention rigorously to facts, — and, as far as it may be found possible, to facts which...operation of the Society will probably be to subdivide and organise its General Council in such a manner as may enable that Council to deal conveniently with... | |
 | Ida H. Stamhuis - 1989 - 312 lehte
...its transactions and publications — to confine its attention rigorously to facts — and as far as may be found possible, to facts which can be stated numerically and arranged in tables."9 Na een moeilijke start werd in 1838 begonnen met het uitgeven van een eigen tijdschrift,... | |
 | Tadao Miyakawa - 1999 - 520 lehte
...opinions from its transactions and publications - to confine its attention rigorously to facts - and, as far as it may be found possible, to facts which can be stated numerically and arranged in tables."12 The London Society began with the project of a great questionnaire or interrogatory, which... | |
 | Daniel R. Headrick - 2000 - 246 lehte
...opinions from its transactions and publications — to confine its attention rigorously to facts — and, as far as it may be found possible, to facts which can be stated numerically and arranged in tables.108 Behind this facade of unsullied objectivity, the founders of the society and others that... | |
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The Statistical Society will consider it to be the first and most essential rule of its conduct to exclude carefully all opinions from its transactions and publications, — to confine its attention rigorously to facts, — and, as far as it may be found... 
