A statistical inquiry into the probability of causes of the production of sex in human offspring - Couverture souple
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The present paper is an attempt to apply a rigorous theory of probable inference to a question of genetic biology, taking statistical data as the basis of the inquiry. If, in making such an investigation, the author may seem to stray outside his professional field, he would reply that the discussion of a biological question was by no means the sole object with which the work has been undertaken. It has appeared to him that the treatment of statistical data generally on a large scale, by the rigorous methods of probable induction, leads one into a field the cultivation of which promises important results to the science of the future; and he hopes the work will show how it is possible by such methods to reach conclusions on questions which elude all direct investigation. The author has to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Trustees of the Bache fund, who made him a grant to pay the expenses of the necessary examination of genealogical data, and to the Census Bureau, through Mr. W.C. Hunt, chief statistician for population, who supplied statistical data relating to several thousand families culled from the Census records. Washington, November, 190S.
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