I. Statistics in CollegesAmerican economic association, 1888 - 80 pages |
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... called upon to test the accuracy of the returns of population under one year of age in the Federal census returns ? Can you devise a method to determine from the census reports on population , Table XXI . , which is the healthier state ...
... called upon to test the accuracy of the returns of population under one year of age in the Federal census returns ? Can you devise a method to determine from the census reports on population , Table XXI . , which is the healthier state ...
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... called a part of the science of statistics . The theoretical stat- istician is satisfied if his truth is the result of statis- tical investigation , or if his theory is sustained . The practical statistician is satisfied only when the ...
... called a part of the science of statistics . The theoretical stat- istician is satisfied if his truth is the result of statis- tical investigation , or if his theory is sustained . The practical statistician is satisfied only when the ...
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... called correlated statistics ; for instance , where there are presented three or more facts relating to each person in the population , the facts being coördinate in their nature . In this class of work skill beyond that which belongs ...
... called correlated statistics ; for instance , where there are presented three or more facts relating to each person in the population , the facts being coördinate in their nature . In this class of work skill beyond that which belongs ...
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... called abstraction , whereby we eliminate all the trouble- some radical quantities from our problems and enable ourselves to have an easy time with the simple equations . Now abstraction is a very good thing 32 Papers Read at Meeting in ...
... called abstraction , whereby we eliminate all the trouble- some radical quantities from our problems and enable ourselves to have an easy time with the simple equations . Now abstraction is a very good thing 32 Papers Read at Meeting in ...
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... called value . Nearly every economist since Ricardo has been careful to assure us that wealth comprises only those useful articles that have value . But as a matter of fact , value is a comparatively late phe- nomenon in the evolution ...
... called value . Nearly every economist since Ricardo has been careful to assure us that wealth comprises only those useful articles that have value . But as a matter of fact , value is a comparatively late phe- nomenon in the evolution ...
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Page 61 - We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred. The words are : " Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 70 - It can never abrogate the text, it can never fritter away its obvious sense, it can never narrow down its true limitations, it can never enlarge its natural boundaries.
Page 77 - ... one of the powers belonging to sovereignty in other civilized nations, and not expressly withheld from Congress by the Constitution; we are irresistibly impelled...
Page 79 - Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies ; but upon a combination of these, with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs.
Page 59 - And the use of all of these terms, 'treaty', 'agreement', 'compact', show that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to...
Page 76 - Congress, as the legislature of a sovereign nation, being expressly empowered by the constitution "to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States," and "to borrow money on the credit of the United States...
Page 27 - The country is hungry for information ; everything of a statistical character, or even of a statistical appearance, is taken up with an eagerness that is almost pathetic ; the community have not yet learned to be half skeptical and critical enough in respect to such statements.
Page 67 - Where the proceedings clearly point out the purpose of the provision, the aid will be valuable and satisfactory ; but where the question is one of abstract meaning, it will be difficult to derive from this source much reliable assistance in interpretation.
Page 62 - In expounding this law the judgment of the court cannot in any degree be influenced by the construction placed upon it by individual members of Congress, in the debate which took place on its passage ; nor by the motives or reasons assigned by them for supporting or opposing amendments that were offered.
Page 70 - The emitting of paper money by the authority of Government is wisely prohibited to the individual States by the national constitution, and the spirit of that prohibition ought not to be disregarded by the Government of the United States. Though paper emissions, under a general authority, might have some advantages not applicable, and be free from some disadvantages which are applicable to the like emissions by the States, separately, yet they are of a nature so liable to abuse — and, it may...