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A Complete Bibliography of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series a Family: 1940–1949 A Complete Bibliography of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A family: 1940{1949 Nelson H. F. Beebe University of Utah Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB 155 S 1400 E RM 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 USA Tel: +1 801 581 5254 FAX: +1 801 581 4148 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (Internet) WWW URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ 13 October 2017 Version 1.01 Title word cross-reference 22nd [303, 302, 415]. 24th [158, 157]. 26th [396, 395]. 27th [469, 468, 485]. 29th [682]. p 31st [157, 229, 302, 348, 395, 468, 540, 611]. χ2 [316]. x [261]. 35 [17]. 38 [398]. -Distribution [316]. 41 [356]. 46 [525]. 1 [157, 229, 348, 395, 468, 540, 611]. 10th 70 [305]. 7th [470]. [540]. 15th [122]. 16th [230, 229, 302, 462]. 17th [171, 124]. 18th [85, 84, 275]. 1925 Accident [40, 504]. Accidents [260]. [567]. 1930 [320]. 1933 [145]. 1934 [211]. Account [535]. Accounting [268]. 1935 [63]. 1938 [193]. 1939 [318, 491]. Accounts [380, 600, 288, 380]. Activity 1941 [122]. 1942 [171, 253]. 1943 [41]. Actuaries [596]. Actuelle [595]. [275, 479, 379]. 1944 [349]. 1945 [396, 415]. Adams [211]. Additions 1946 [469]. 1947 [558, 611, 566]. 1948 [27, 48, 74, 96, 119, 136, 153, 167, 182, 201, [612, 611, 596]. 1949 [682]. 1960 [233]. 221, 238, 257, 272, 294, 310, 326, 362, 385, 410, 427, 441, 459, 482, 515, 554, 625, 657, 673]. 2 [84, 302]. 20th [349, 348, 612, 558, 611]. 1 2 Adelphi [84, 302]. Adolescent [397]. [370]. Adopted [488]. Adult [244]. Advanced [332, 506]. Advancement [7]. Advances B [11, 192, 618, 479, 477, 8, 148, 63, 648]. [83, 464]. Advertising [422, 649, 196]. Babington [8]. Back Affaires [594]. After [171, 235]. Agencies [29, 49, 76, 98, 184, 203, 222, 240, 328, 339, [356]. Agreements [434]. Agricole [42]. 364, 572, 587, 626, 689]. Balance [380, 19]. Agricultural [6, 58, 62, 172]. Agriculture Balances [379]. Baldamus [565]. Balogh [318, 121, 259, 245, 474, 280]. Aid [443]. [617]. Banking [510, 616]. Banks [356]. Aitken [56]. Alan [38]. Alastair [564]. Barger [318, 377, 398]. Barnard [88]. Alcohol [63]. Alec [378]. Alexander [671]. Based [373]. Bases [125]. Basic [226]. Alfred [199, 478]. Algebraic [298]. Allan Basil [380]. Basis [517]. Be [470]. Beef [477]. Allen [174, 665]. Amaro [524]. [518]. Before [470, 235, 171, 275, 225]. Amended [488]. America [41]. American Beginners [106]. Beginning [6]. [565, 144, 479, 90, 284, 650, 35, 668, 318, 253]. Behaviour [319, 351]. Bell [126]. American-Born [284]. among [40]. Belonging [446]. Belshaw [194]. Bennett Analyse [42]. Analyser [561]. Analysing [267]. Berkeley [666]. Bernonville [42]. [192]. Analysis [473, 489, 249, 260, 521, 188, Bertrand [42]. Better [494]. Between 432, 127, 191, 445, 371, 90, 430, 320, 649, [443, 432, 246, 446, 260, 141, 518, 149]. 391, 542, 298, 380, 634, 37, 142, 148, 633]. Beveridge [228, 45, 354]. Big [529]. Analytical [260]. Andr´e [42]. Animals Binomial [264]. Biological [107]. Biology [564]. Annual [249, 474]. Biometry [58]. Birth [109, 265]. [600, 344, 85, 84, 158, 157, 229, 303, 302, 349, Births [560]. bis [685]. Black [65]. 348, 396, 395, 469, 468, 540, 612, 611, 682]. Boddington [684]. Bogot [130]. Bonar Anthony [439]. Application [116]. Book [636, 684, 504, 41]. Applications [11, 21, 69, 192, 305, 447, 472, 473, 632, 376, [375, 419, 248, 317, 471, 471, 473]. Applied 15, 20, 58, 59, 64, 91, 92, 196, 234, 251, 268, [474]. Appliqu´ee [594]. Approximate 283, 288, 355, 380, 451, 452, 526, 596, 633, [173]. Approximation [316]. April [122]. 634, 668, 131, 252, 478, 489, 491, 524, 527, Arbeiter [685]. Areas [330, 90, 209]. 579, 665, 669, 37, 494, 565, 566, 597, 618, Arithmetical [368]. Arthur 652, 636, 22, 61, 112, 144, 231, 250, 307, 479, [69, 255, 475, 619, 449, 12, 285]. Articles 523, 651, 493, 614, 684, 249, 16, 17, 42, 44, [26, 47, 73, 95, 118, 135, 152, 166, 181, 200, 65, 87, 109, 129, 145, 147, 161, 175, 194, 217, 220, 237, 256, 271, 293, 309, 325, 337, 361, 232, 235, 265, 266, 304, 306, 318, 334, 353, 384, 409, 426, 440, 458, 481, 499, 514, 532, 358, 475, 477, 511, 545, 546, 548, 7, 8, 56, 57, 553, 570, 585, 605, 624, 639, 656, 672, 688]. 86, 106, 107, 108, 142, 143, 253, 510, 544, 36, Arts [85, 84, 302]. Ashley [404]. Asia [267]. 105, 282, 333, 507, 521, 616, 617, 619, 163, Aspects 567, 9, 10, 38, 39, 40, 62, 125, 126]. Book [112, 145, 51, 518, 149, 213, 628, 486, 567]. [127, 159, 174, 191, 264, 351, 352, 433, 434, Assessing [163, 370]. Assessment [299]. 449, 525, 528, 581, 582, 504, 286, 422, 595, 18, Assets [600]. Association [7, 35]. 19, 45, 88, 89, 90, 529, 666, 667, 43, 212, 543, Associations [215]. Assurance [244]. 594, 615, 685, 564, 580, 332, 506, 563, 60, 68, Atlantic [297]. Attributes [5]. Audits 111, 128, 130, 146, 148, 149, 162, 176, 177, [619]. Aurel [563]. Automobile [21]. 195, 213, 214, 215, 216, 267, 284, 287, 319, Autoregressive [503]. aux [594]. Awards 320, 354, 356, 357, 377, 378, 379, 397, 398, 3 399, 400, 401, 420, 450, 492, 547, 600, 635, [108]. Children [163]. Chudson [401]. City 649, 160, 233, 435, 448, 598, 599, 650, 683, [652, 88]. Clair [604]. Clara [603]. Clark 471, 490, 508, 522, 542, 12, 13, 14, 41, 63, 66, [233]. Class [432, 206, 676, 577]. Classes 67, 110, 193, 211, 285, 474, 476, 509, 648, 421]. [104]. Classification [663]. Clothing [577]. Books [159]. Booth [406]. Borden [196]. Clough [479]. Club [406]. Coal [664, 18]. Born [284, 320]. Boroughs [246]. Coal-Mining [18]. Coats [284]. Colin Bradford [580]. Bray [380]. Bretherton [233]. Collected [282]. Collection [559]. [147]. Bretton [494]. Brinton [59]. Bristol Collectiviste [42]. Colleges [487]. Collet [51, 250]. Britain [603]. Collins [619]. Colonial [632, 651]. [566, 17, 510, 148, 392, 82, 518, 147, 477, 582]. Comments [315]. Commerce [684]. British [565, 651, 232, 567, 146, 357, 650, Commercial [287, 356, 420, 600]. 443, 140, 170, 121, 372, 206, 343, 7]. Commission [52]. Committee Broadcasting [343]. Brown [211]. [546, 319, 488]. Committees [420]. Brownlee [433]. Building [661, 44]. Commodity [434]. Community [307]. Burchardt [147]. Burden [232, 276]. Burn Companies [244]. Company [479]. [89]. Burns [449]. Buros [159]. Business Comparative [589, 90, 130, 356, 650]. [544, 449, 529, 41, 452, 616, 127]. Compared [6]. Comparison [313]. Business-Cycle [41]. Comparisons [297]. Competition [618, 89]. Composition [193]. Computers C [485, 59, 596, 37, 266, 304, 334, 56, 253, [8]. Computing [600]. Comrie [10]. 567, 9, 125, 264, 449, 528, 422, 564, 284, 476]. Concept [346]. Concerning [315, 278]. C.B [456]. C.B. [199, 324, 404]. C.B.E Conclusion [558]. Conditions [207, 435]. [383]. C.B.E. [275]. C.H. [415]. C.V.O. Conference [319, 280]. Conrad [671]. [383]. Cairncross [378]. Calculating [10]. Consequences [296, 279]. Considerations Calculation [10]. Calculations [106]. [534]. Constituents [80]. Consumer Calvert [180]. Cameroons [61]. Canada [608, 356, 214]. Consumption [577]. [284]. Canadian [19, 320]. Capacity [467]. Contemporaine [42]. Contemporary [13]. Capital [599, 67]. Capitalism [435, 110]. Contingency [5, 298]. Contribution [63]. Capitalist [127]. Caradog [667]. Card Contributions [472]. Control [445]. Care [564]. Carl [634, 110]. Carnap [192, 645, 452, 434, 299, 543, 508]. [662]. Carr [266]. Carr-Saunders [266]. Convened [558]. Copying [417]. Carrying [467]. Cartwright [18]. Cases Corporate [401, 379]. Corporation [188]. Cash [379]. Cattle [518]. Causes [21, 343]. Correlation [368, 432, 141]. [595]. Cecil [112]. Celebrations [538]. Correlations [373, 352]. Corrigenda Census [205, 296, 274, 243]. Cost [526, 630, 430, 505, 444, 124, 575, 505]. [104, 87, 546, 574, 148, 545, 319]. Cotton Censuses [683]. Centenary [35, 538]. [502]. Cough [225]. Council Central [12, 285]. Centuries [296, 279]. [84, 157, 229, 302, 348, 395, 468, 488, 540, Century [479, 244, 45]. Certain [188, 518]. 520, 541, 611, 562, 578, 681]. Country [3]. chair [171, 122, 415, 485, 275]. Chambers County [246]. Cours [594]. Course [476]. [106, 40]. Changes [3, 82, 102, 450]. Covariances [466]. Cram´er [314]. Creator Chapter [509]. Charles [406]. Chart [192]. [110]. Credit [214, 67]. Cricket Charter [470]. Charts [299, 192]. [369, 368, 389]. Crime [149]. Criminal Chemical [522]. Chi [108]. Chi-Square [112, 397]. Crops [331]. Crum [447]. 4 Cudmore [439]. Cumulative [417]. Each [431]. Earners [629, 642]. Earnings Current [25, 72, 94, 114, 133, 151, 165, 179, [629, 642]. East [397]. Econometric [31]. 198, 219, 270, 290, 322, 336, 360, 382, 403, Economi´ [42]. Economic 424, 437, 455, 496, 513, 531, 550, 569, 584, [26, 47, 73, 95, 118, 135, 152, 166, 181, 200, 602, 622, 638, 655, 686, 652]. Curve [521]. 220, 237, 256, 271, 293, 309, 325, 337, 361, Curves [537]. Cycle [147, 41]. Cycles 384, 409, 426, 440, 458, 481, 499, 514, 532, [127, 41, 449]. Cyprus [505]. 553, 570, 585, 605, 624, 639, 656, 672, 688, 196, 171, 207, 636, 129, 145, 567, 191, 351, D [58, 380, 524, 665, 129, 521, 89, 667, 60, 89, 529, 101, 518, 214, 420, 353]. Economics 177, 267, 287, 600, 66]. D.Sc. [457]. [11, 636, 44, 399, 233, 91, 251, 669, 217, 528, Dahlberg [107]. Dalling [564]. Data 128, 378, 635]. Economie´ [42]. [192, 473, 559, 346, 445]. Date [558]. Dauer Economique´ [42]. Economists [447, 665]. [356]. Davey [216]. Davies [522]. Davis Economy [442, 267]. Edgerton [86]. Edna [191]. Day [435]. Deane [632]. Dearle [148]. [511]. Education [357, 109]. Edward [615]. Death [102]. Deaths [138, 123]. December Effect [103]. Effects [196]. Efficiency [502]. [157, 229, 302, 348, 395, 468, 540, 611]. Eighteenth [296, 244, 279]. Eighth D´ec`es [595]. Declining [11]. Defective [230, 229]. Eleanor [425].
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