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Carroll W. Doten Statistics in the Service of Economics 1--7
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Henry Ludwell Moore Elasticity of Demand and Flexibility of
Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--19
Henry S. Dennison Management and the Business Cycle . . . 20--31
F. L. Lamson Management and the Business Cycle:
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Leonard P. Ayres The Nature and Status of Business
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39
C. S. Duncan The Nature and Status of Business
Research: Discussion . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
W. A. Berridge Cycles of Employment and Unemployment in
the United States, 1914--1921 . . . . . 42--55
Alvin H. Hansen The Buying Power of Labor During the War 56--66
Edward White Income Fluctuation of a Selected Group
of Personal Returns . . . . . . . . . . 67--81
William S. Rossiter and
Carroll W. Doten and
Edwin F. Gay and
Wesley C. Mitchell and
Edwin R. A. Seligman and
Walter F. Willcox and
Allyn A. Young Third Report of the Advisory Committee
of the Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Anonymous Appendix I: Resolutions Adopted by the
Joint Advisory Committee of the American
Statistical and the Economic
Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous Appendix II: Progress of Census Work in
1921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--98
Lawrence B. Mann Comparison of Changes in the Value and
the Volume of Foreign Trade . . . . . . 99--101
W. Randolph Burgess Index Numbers for the Wages of Common
Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
Roswell F. Phelps Number of Wage-Earners in Manufacturing
Establishments in Massachusetts,
1914--21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Mary N. Winslow Medians of Women's Earnings in Four
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Frederick E. Croxton A Percentage Protractor . . . . . . . . 108--109
F. L. Hoffman The Results of the Census of
Czecho--Slovakia for 1921 . . . . . . . 109--110
Edward Eyre Hunt Unemployment and the Business Cycle . . 110--112
Anonymous Proceedings of the Eighty-Third Annual
Meeting of the American Statistical
Association: Pittsburgh, PA, December
27--29, 1921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--121
F. L. Hoffman Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 121--125
Anonymous New Members Elected Since 1921 . . . . . 126--126
Jacob Viner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 127--132
Truman L. Kelley Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 132--134
Joseph E. Pogue Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 134--136
Arthur E. Albrecht Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 136--138
Isador Lubin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 138--140
Horace Secrist Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 140--142
Homer B. Vanderblue Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 142--143
Frank A. Ross Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 143--144
F. G. Tryon Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 144--146
Bruce D. Mudgett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 146--147
Harry C. Carver Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 148--148
Willford I. King Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 148--149
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 150--155
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Oswald W. Knauth The Place of Corporate Surplus in the
National Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--166
Leon E. Truesdell A Summary of the Results of the 1920
Census of Agriculture . . . . . . . . . 167--177
C. L. Stewart A Summary of the Results of the 1920
Census of Agriculture: Discussion . . . 177--180
Franz Boas Report on an Anthropometric
Investigation of the Population of the
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--209
W. L. Crum The Determination of Secular Trend . . . 210--215
Louis I. Dublin The Work of Dreyer in Relation to Life
Insurance Examinations . . . . . . . . . 216--226
W. A. Berridge Cycles of Employment and Unemployment in
the United States, 1903--1914 . . . . . 227--240
Katharine Snodgrass The Federal Reserve Board's Price Index
for Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . 241--247
Margaret G. Myers Monthly Production of Pig Iron, 1884 to
1903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
E. R. Shaw The Ratio of Male to Female Births as
Affected by Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--255
Lawrence B. Mann Sectional Trends in Department Store
Trade, 1919--22 . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
Margaret Loomis Stecker Wage Studies of the National Industrial
Conference Board: a Reply . . . . . . . 258--263
Paul H. Douglas Wage Studies of the National Industrial
Conference Board: a Rejoinder . . . . . 263--266
A. J. Altmeyer An All-Inclusive Employment Index for
Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--268
James A. Tobey The Division of Vital Statistics of the
United States Bureau of the Census . . . 268--271
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
Anonymous Members Elected Since February . . . . . 275--275
Walter F. Willcox Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 276--278
H. S. Person Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 278--280
Wesley C. Mitchell Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 281--283
E. H. Downey Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 283--284
William F. Ogburn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 284--286
W. A. Paton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 286--289
Margaret E. Gantt Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 290--292
W. W. Stewart Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 292--293
Louis N. Robinson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 293--294
Paul F. Brissenden Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 294--296
Melvin T. Copeland Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 296--297
Arthur E. Albrecht Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 297--299
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 300--304
Willford I. King The Net Volume of Saving in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--323
William F. Ogburn and
Dorothy S. Thomas The Influence of the Business Cycle on
Certain Social Conditions . . . . . . . 324--340
William L. Hart The Method of Monthly Means for
Determination of a Seasonal Variation 341--349
Joseph A. Hill Some Results of the 1920 Population
Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--358
Walter N. Polakov Kinetic Statistics as an Aid to
Production and Distribution . . . . . . 359--365
Robert M. Woodbury Westergaard's Method of Expected Deaths
as Applied to the Study of Infant
Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--376
Rufus S. Tucker Distribution of Men Physically Unfit for
Military Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--384
Hornell Hart Pre-War Unemployment Statistics: a
Critique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--391
M. C. Rorty Physical Measures as Functions of
Frequency Distributions . . . . . . . . 391--393
J. Arthur Harris On the Correlation Between a Variable
and the Deviation of an Associated but
not Dependent Variable from its Probable
Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
A. R. Crathorne Calculation of the Correlation Ratio . . 394--396
Ruth E. K. Peterson New Swedish Price Index Numbers . . . . 396--397
Harald Westergaard Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 398--402
Anonymous Members Elected Since May . . . . . . . 402--403
H. K. Herwitz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 404--407
George E. Barnett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 407--409
G. P. Watkins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 409--410
Jacob H. Hollander Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 411--411
George B. Buck Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 412--414
H. Parker Willis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 414--415
William O. Weyforth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 415--417
J. A. Hill Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 417--418
F. G. Tryon Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 418--419
Margaret Gantt Stephens Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 419--419
Willford I. King Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 419--420
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 421--424
Franz Boas The Measurement of Differences Between
Variable Quantities . . . . . . . . . . 425--445
Otto R. Eichel The Long-Time Cycles of Pandemic
Influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--454
Willford I. King The Net Volume of Saving in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--470
Raymond B. Prescott Law of Growth in Forecasting Demand . . 471--479
Katherine E. Howland A Statistical Study of Poor Relief in
Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--489
Ralph G. Hurlin The Employment Statistics of the United
States Employment Service . . . . . . . 490--497
Holbrook Working The Determination of Secular Trend
Reconsidered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--502
Alvin H. Hansen Industrial Classes in the United States
in 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--506
W. F. Crick British Banking Statistics . . . . . . . 506--514
J. Arthur Harris The Probable Error of the Difference
Between Two Differences . . . . . . . . 514--514
Anonymous Recent Activities of the Census Bureau 515--517
Anonymous Method of Collecting Financial
Statistics of Cities and States . . . . 517--519
W. A. Berridge Statistics on Employment: a Rejoinder 519--522
Anonymous A Proposal for a Standard Series of
Statistical Reference Books . . . . . . 522--525
Horace Secrist A Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--528
H. K. Herwitz A Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--528
Robert E. Chaddock Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 528--533
Anonymous Members Elected Since August . . . . . . 533--533
Walter F. Willcox Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 534--538
Alvin H. Hansen Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 538--540
Roswell F. Phelps Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 540--543
T. S. Adams Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 543--545
F. L. Hoffman Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 545--548
Robert Henderson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 548--552
Frederick C. Mills Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 552--554
George Soule Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 554--555
F. L. Hoffman Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 555--556
Edwin Bidwell Wilson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 556--557
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 558--560
William S. Rossiter The Adventure of Population Growth . . . 561--574
Warren S. Thompson Population Facts for the United States
and Their Interpretation . . . . . . . . 575--587
G. P. Watkins The Measurement of Concomitance of
Variation: Proposed Indexes of
Variability and Correlation Based Upon
Logarithmic Curves and Having Reference
Primarily to Time Series . . . . . . . . 588--599
Harry A. Wembridge Experiment and Statistics in the
Selection of Employees: Methods Used in
the Selection of Machine Operators in a
Clothing Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--606
W. L. Crum The Use of the Median in Determining
Seasonal Variation . . . . . . . . . . . 607--614
Ralph G. Hurlin Canadian Employment Statistics . . . . . 615--622
Karl J. Holzinger A Combination Form for Calculating the
Correlation Coefficient and Ratios . . . 623--627
Anonymous Final Report of the Joint Committee of
the America Statistical and the American
Economic Associations to the Director of
the Census, 1922 . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--649
Homer Hoyt The Inequality in the Distribution of
Wealth and Income in the United States 650--651
John Balch Blood Law of Growth in Forecasting Demand . . 651--653
Anonymous Infant Mortality in Australia . . . . . 653--654
Anonymous Report of the Committee on the
Measurement of Employment . . . . . . . 654--657
Anonymous Report on the Business-Cycle Dinner . . 657--659
Edwin W. Kopf and
Robert E. Chaddock Proceedings of the Eighty-Fourth Annual
Meeting of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--667
Joseph A. Hill Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--669
J. A. H. and
L. M. and
W. S. R. Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 669--676
Anonymous Members Elected Since November . . . . . 676--677
W. L. C. Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 678--682
B. M. Squires Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 682--684
Leonard P. Ayres Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 684--686
Olga S. Halsey Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 686--688
W. Randolph Burgess Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 688--689
Joshua Bernhardt Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 690--693
O. W. Knauth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 694--694
G. P. Watkins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 694--694
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 695--698
Walter F. Willcox Population and the World War: a
Preliminary Survey . . . . . . . . . . . 699--712
Warren M. Persons Correlation of Time Series . . . . . . . 713--726
W. Randolph Burgess Velocity of Bank Deposits . . . . . . . 727--740
G. P. Watkins The Measurement of Concomitance of
Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--758
Mark H. Ingraham On Professor H. L. Moore's Mathematical
Analysis of the Business Cycle . . . . . 759--765
William L. Holt A Statistical Study of Smokers and
Non-Smokers at the University of
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--772
Don D. Lescohier Geographical Aspects of Statistics of
Employment and Earnings . . . . . . . . 772--776
Horace Secrist A ``Statistical Paradox'' . . . . . . . 776--780
Robert E. Moritz On Taylor's Interpolation Formula as a
Limiting Case of the Interpolation
Formula of Lagrange . . . . . . . . . . 781--784
Ralph G. Hurlin A Record of Industrial Adjustment to the
Last Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--788
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 788--791
Harold V. Roelse The Employment Statistics of the United
States Employment Service . . . . . . . 791--793
Arne Fisher Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--795
Harald Westergaard and
George H. Van Buren Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 795--797
Anonymous Preliminary Program for the Eighty-Fifth
Annual Meeting of the American
Statistical Association, Washington,
D.C., December 27--29, 1923 . . . . . . 797--802
Anonymous Members Elected Since February . . . . . 803--803
W. A. Paton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 804--808
William F. Ogburn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 808--809
Sumner H. Slichter Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 809--816
Arne Fisher Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 816--818
William B. Bailey Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 818--819
Wesley C. Mitchell Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 820--822
George Soule Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 822--827
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 828--828
Kate Holladay Claghorn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 829--830
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 831--834
Irving Fisher A Weekly Index Number of Wholesale
Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--840
Edwin Bidwell Wilson First and Second Laws of Error . . . . . 841--851
Gladden W. Baker The Trend of Adult Mortality in the
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--865
Paul H. Douglas An Analysis of Strike Statistics,
1881--1921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--877
Karl J. Holzinger Higher Degrees of College Professors: a
Study of Some Factors Affecting the
Research of Graduate Students Who Become
College Professors . . . . . . . . . . . 878--888
W. L. Crum The Resemblance Between the Ordinate of
the Periodogram and the Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--899
Hornell Hart Mongolian Amentia and The Ages of The
Mothers at the Births of the Aments . . 900--903
Lawrence K. Frank Long Term Price Trends . . . . . . . . . 904--908
John Rogers Musselman Spurious Correlation Applied to Urn
Schemata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--911
F. Stuart Chapin Seasonal Variation of Dependency . . . . 911--914
Robert C. Dexter French--Canadian Intermarriage in New
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914--915
J. A. H. Progress of Work in The Census Bureau 915--918
Andrew H. Melville Department Store Research . . . . . . . 918--919
Charles Felton Pidgin and
R. F. P. Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 919--924
Anonymous Members Elected Since May . . . . . . . 924--925
George C. Whipple Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 926--928
Donald R. Belcher and
Harold M. Flinn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 928--931
Henry J. Harris Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 931--932
F. H. Hankins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 932--936
Joseph S. Davis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 936--937
H. Parker Willis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 938--939
W. J. Baxter Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 939--941
Bruce D. Mudgett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 941--942
H. L. Rietz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 942--944
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 945--948
Carl Snyder A New Index of the Volume of Trade . . . 949--963
Burton H. Camp Problems in Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 964--977
Paul F. Brissenden Occupational Incidence of Labor Mobility 978--992
H. R. Tolley and
M. J. B. Ezekiel A Method of Handling Multiple
Correlation Problems . . . . . . . . . . 993--1003
C. C. Osborn The Future Oil Supply . . . . . . . . . 1004--1009
J. S. Taylor A Statistical Theory of Depreciation . . 1010--1023
Irving Fisher The Business Cycle Largely a ``Dance of
the Dollar'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1024--1028
Charles C. Grove Abridged Life Tables for Health Officers 1028--1038
M. Delatour Extracts from Presidential Address of M.
Delatour at the Fifteenth Meeting of the
International Statistical Institute at
Brussels, October 1, 1923 . . . . . . . 1038--1039
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 1040--1042
Anonymous Economic Survey of the New York Region 1042--1043
W. S. R. The New Hampshire Survey . . . . . . . . 1043--1045
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1049
Anonymous Members Elected Since August . . . . . . 1049--1050
James A. Field Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1051--1053
W. C. Clark Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1053--1056
W. L. C. Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1057--1059
William Breiby Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1059--1064
Hornell Hart Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1064--1067
Felix Morley Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1068--1069
D. D. Lescohier Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1069--1071
W. A. Paton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1071--1073
John Rice Miner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1073--1074
Joseph E. Pogue Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 1075--1076
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1080
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Warren M. Persons Some Fundamental Concepts of Statistics 1--8
Willford I. King Population Growth and the Volume of
Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--13
Karl G. Karsten The Theory of Quadrature in Economics 14--29
L. H. Bean and
O. C. Stine Four Types of Index Numbers of Farm
Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--35
Carl Snyder A New Index of Business Activity . . . . 36--41
George H. Knibbs The Nature of an Unequivocal Price-Index
and Quantity-Index . . . . . . . . . . . 42--60
Donald R. Belcher The Supervising or Staff Statistician 61--65
Hornell Hart A Simplified Method of Determining What
Contrasts Between Two Percentage
Distributions are Significant . . . . . 65--70
Stuart A. Rice The Political Vote as a Frequency
Distribution of Opinion . . . . . . . . 70--75
Mary Van Kleeck Annual Report of the Committee of the
American Statistical Association on
Governmental Labor Statistics . . . . . 76--79
Stuart A. Rice A Note on the Census Categories,
``Urban'' and ``Rural'' . . . . . . . . 79--81
E. W. K. Standards for American Vital
Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau:
Fourteenth Census Publications . . . . . 82--84
R. H. Employment Statistics for Cities . . . . 84--85
Robert E. Chaddock Proceedings of the Eighty-Fifth Annual
Meeting of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--95
W. S. Rossiter Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 96--101
Anonymous Members Elected Since December . . . . . 101--102
Philip Green Wright Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 103--108
George E. Barnett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 108--110
Harold M. Flinn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 111--113
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 114--116
I. L. Sharfman Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 116--118
Robert M. Woodbury Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 119--120
E. A. Goldenweiser Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 120--123
Irving Fisher Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 123--125
James W. Glover Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 125--126
Margaret Loomis Stecker Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 126--129
Edmond E. Lincoln Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 129--130
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 131--136
Robert Morse Woodbury Economic Factors in Infant Mortality . . 137--155
Lincoln W. Hall Seasonal Variation as a Relative of
Secular Trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--166
Helen D. Falkner The Measurement of Seasonal Variation 167--179
George R. Davies The Problem of a Standard Index Number
Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--188
Carl Snyder A New Index of the General Price Level
from 1875 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--195
George H. Knibbs The Nature of an Unequivocal Price-Index
and Quantity-Index: Part II . . . . . . 196--205
H. Parker Willis Ten Years' Experience in Business
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--217
Paul R. Rider A Generalized Law of Error . . . . . . . 217--220
G. E. Harmon Death Rates from Puerperal Septicemia
and Their Variability . . . . . . . . . 221--226
W. F. W. and
B. W. Kilgore and
L. I. Dublin and
W. S. Rossiter Cotton Statistics from the Department of
Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--230
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau:
Census of Institutional Classes . . . . 231--232
Anonymous The Collection of Original Statistical
Data: Meeting of the New York Members of
the American Statistical Association . . 232--234
Anonymous The League of Nations Health Service . . 234--236
Ethelbert Stewart Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 236--240
Anonymous Members Elected Since February . . . . . 241--241
Allyn A. Young Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 242--246
Walter F. Willcox Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 246--249
Louis I. Dublin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 249--253
H. K. Herwitz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 253--257
W. A. Paton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 257--259
J. M. Clark Book Review: \booktitleRailroads;
Rates--Service--Management, by Homer
Bews Vanderblue; Kenneth Farwell . . . . 259--262
Jacob Viner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 262--264
Charles B. Davenport Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 264--264
W. A. Berridge Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 265--266
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 266--268
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 269--272
Frederick C. Mills The Measurement of Correlation and the
Problem of Estimation . . . . . . . . . 273--300
W. Willford I. King An Improved Method for Measuring the
Seasonal Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--313
Paul H. Douglas Is the Family of Five Typical? . . . . . 314--328
Carl Snyder A New Clearings Index of Business for
Fifty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--335
Irving Fisher Revision of the Weekly Index Number . . 336--347
Walter F. Willcox The Relation of the United States to
International Statistics . . . . . . . . 348--361
R. J. McFall The Higher Cost of Food in Massachusetts 362--377
Alvin H. Hansen Wholesale Prices, 1801--1840 . . . . . . 377--381
Holbrook Working Monthly Pig Iron Production, 1884--1902:
An Analysis of a Problem in Correlation 381--386
Walter F. Willcox U.S. Divorce Rates, 1922 . . . . . . . . 387--389
Anonymous Social Science Abstracts . . . . . . . . 390--392
Anonymous Trade Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--396
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau:
Quinquennial Census of Agriculture . . . 396--399
James W. Glover Work of the Association's Committee on
Professional and Educational Standards
for Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . 399--404
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 404--409
Anonymous Members Elected Since May . . . . . . . 409--409
Anne Bezanson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 410--411
M. O. Lorenz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 412--413
Arne Fisher Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 413--417
H. Parker Willis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 417--419
Robert F. Foerster Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 419--420
Edgar Sydenstricker Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 420--421
Frank A. Ross Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 421--423
John M. Gries Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 423--424
Paul H. Douglas Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 424--425
Lewis Merriam Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 426--430
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Anonymous Constitution and By-Laws of the American
Statistical Association: Constitution 3--4
Anonymous [Members of the American Statistical
Association] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--31
Anonymous Publications of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--51
Mordecai Ezekiel A Method of Handling Curvilinear
Correlation for any Number of Variables 431--453
Anonymous A New Zealand Study in Natality . . . . 454--467
Willford I. King Principles Underlying the Isolation of
Cycles and Trends . . . . . . . . . . . 468--475
Leroy E. Peabody Growth Curves and Railway Traffic . . . 476--483
Elma B. Carr Cost of Living Statistics of U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics and the National
Industrial Conference Board: Comparison
of Methods Used in the Collection and
Computation of Cost of Living Figures 484--507
Mortimer B. Lane Three Years' Progress in Current
Business Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 508--515
E. P. Neale and
D. M. Y. Sommerville A Shortened Interpolation Formula for
Certain Types of Data . . . . . . . . . 515--517
George Soule Wage Indexes and Price Indexes . . . . . 517--519
Malcolm M. Willey and
Stuart A. Rice A Sex Cleavage in the Presidential
Election of 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--520
Constant Lurguin The Fiftieth Anniversary of Quetelet's
Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--522
F. L. Hoffman Welfare Activities of the United States
Steel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . 522--524
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 524--525
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 525--532
Anonymous Members Elected Since August . . . . . . 533--533
R. H. Coats Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 534--539
Bryce M. Stewart Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 540--543
Jacob Viner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 544--546
Isador Lubin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 547--550
Miles M. Dawson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 550--553
Robert F. Foerster Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 553--553
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 554--555
H. W. Rauber Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 555--556
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 557--562
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Louis I. Dublin The Statistician and the Population
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Lincoln W. Hall A Moving Secular Trend and Moving
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24
Hornell Hart Familial Differential Fecundity . . . . 25--30
Bradford B. Smith Forecasting the Acreage of Cotton . . . 31--47
W. L. Crum Progressive Variation in Seasonality . . 48--64
McDonald H. Wilson The Major Trends of Bond Prices . . . . 65--74
Frank Alexander Ross Formulae for Facilitating Computations
in Time Series Analyses . . . . . . . . 75--79
Edgar Sydenstricker Population Statistics of Foreign
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--89
R. H. Coats The Canadian Plan of Organization of
Government Statistics . . . . . . . . . 90--93
Anonymous Committee on Governmental Labor
Statistics of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--98
Anonymous Report of the Joint Advisory Committee
on the Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
C. R. Chambers An Index of Profits . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
Percy L. Clark, Jr. A Note on Almshouse Population . . . . . 107--109
Willford I. King Proceedings of the Eighty-Sixth Annual
Meeting of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 120--122
F. W. Notestein Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
Anonymous Members Elected Since December, 1924 . . 127--128
Haven Emerson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 129--133
Allyn A. Young Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 133--135
Willard L. Thorp Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 135--138
John R. Commons Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 138--139
Helen D. Falkner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 140--141
George Soule Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 141--143
H. Feldman Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 144--146
David L. Wing Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 147--149
I. V. Hiscock Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 149--150
C. E. Gehlke Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 150--152
Willford I. King Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 152--153
R. von Huhn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 153--156
Winfield W. Riefler Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 156--157
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 158--162
E. Roesle The Mortality in Germany, 1913--1921:
The Effects of War Casualities and
Famine on Mortality . . . . . . . . . . 163--178
Irving Fisher Our Unstable Dollar and the So-Called
Business Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--202
O. Gressens On the Measurement of Seasonal Variation 203--210
W. L. Crum The Least Squares Criterion for Trend
Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--222
Theodore H. Brown The Law of Demand and the Theory of
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230
Olin Ingraham The Refinement of Time Series . . . . . 231--237
J. Lossing Buck Price Changes in China: The Effect of
Famines and the Recent Rise in Prices 238--241
Henry Schultz An Extension of the Method of Moments 242--244
Anonymous Forecasting Security Prices . . . . . . 244--249
Virgil Jordan The Cost of Living Indices of the
N.I.C.B. and of the B. of L. S. . . . . 249--253
Anonymous On the Standard Error of Estimate . . . 253--255
H. G. Moulton and
C. E. McGuire Professor Young's Review of ``Germany's
Capacity to Pay'' . . . . . . . . . . . 256--260
Allyn A. Young Professor Young's Review of ``Germany's
Capacity to Pay'': a Rejoinder . . . . . 260--261
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 261--263
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 264--270
Anonymous Members Elected Since March, 1925 . . . 271--274
I. M. Rubinow Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 275--280
Anonymous [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--283
Anonymous [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
Karl G. Karsten Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 284--285
Percy H. Evans Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 285--286
F. E. Richter Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 287--288
F. H. Hankins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 288--290
R. von Huhn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 290--293
Frank D. Graham Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 294--295
Melbourne S. Applegate Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 295--296
Paul R. Rider Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 297--299
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 300--304
Louis I. Dublin and
Alfred J. Lotka On the True Rate of Natural Increase . . 305--339
Harold Hotelling A General Mathematical Theory of
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--353
Edward P. Neale A New Zealand Study in Infant Mortality 354--367
Leroy E. Peabody A Study of Net Railway Operating Income 368--379
Melville J. Herskovits A Further Discussion of the Variability
of Family Strains in the Negro--White
Population of New York City . . . . . . 380--389
Lowell J. Reed A Form of Saturation Curve . . . . . . . 390--396
Carl Snyder The Revised Index of the Volume of Trade 397--404
Mordecai Ezekiel The Assumptions Implied in the Multiple
Regression Equation . . . . . . . . . . 405--408
Irving Fisher Revision of the Weekly Index Number . . 409--413
Woodlief Thomas British Production Indexes . . . . . . . 413--416
John G. Schaffer A Formula for Freight Rates . . . . . . 416--419
L. R. Gottlieb Professor Common's Review of ``The Tax
Problem in Wisconsin'' . . . . . . . . . 419--421
M. C. Rorty An Attempt at a Logical Approach to
Certain Fundamentals in Physical
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--423
J. A. H. Notes from the Census Bureau . . . . . . 423--425
Anonymous Answers to Questions Invited . . . . . . 425--426
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 426--437
Anonymous Members Elected Since June, 1925 . . . . 438--440
Dorothy Swaine Thomas Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 441--443
Woodlief Thomas Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 443--446
Ernest Minor Patterson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 446--448
Frank W. Notestein Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 449--452
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 452--456
W. C. Clark Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 456--458
J. M. Clark Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 458--460
E. A. G. Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 460--460
William A. Berridge Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 460--461
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 462--466
George R. Davies The Logarithmic Curve of Distribution 467--480
Warren S. Thompson Size of Families from Which College
Students Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--495
Helen D. Falkner Variation and Correlation within the
Credit Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--511
Truman L. Kelley Measures of Correlation Determined from
Groups of Varying Homogeneity . . . . . 512--521
Clark L. Hull An Automatic Correlation Calculating
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--531
Frederick E. Croxton An Apparatus to Assist in the
Calculation of the Standard Deviation of
a Grouped Frequency Distribution . . . . 532--536
George B. L. Arner An Index Number of Net Foreign Trade in
Foodstuffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--542
Bradford B. Smith The Error in Eliminating Secular Trend
and Seasonal Variation Before
Correlating Time Series . . . . . . . . 543--545
W. A. Shewhart The Application of Statistics as an Aid
in Maintaining Quality of a Manufactured
Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--548
O. Gressens The Quantitative Determination of
Fundamental Changes in Economic Data . . 549--555
Robert Riegel Richter's Review of ``Elements of
Business Statistics'' . . . . . . . . . 556--557
F. E. Richter Richter's Review of ``Elements of
Business Statistics'': a Rejoinder . . . 557--559
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 559--561
Anonymous The Second International Conference of
Labour Statisticians at Geneva; April
20th to 25th, 1925. Resolutions Adopted
by the Conference . . . . . . . . . . . 561--565
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 565--574
Anonymous Members Elected Since September, 1925 574--575
H. K. Herwitz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 576--578
Carl E. Parry Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 578--579
Margaret Gadsby Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 579--584
Willford I. King Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 584--586
Frederick C. Mills Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 586--588
Melville J. Herskovits Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 588--590
George W. Dowrie Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 590--591
John B. Andrews Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 591--592
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 593--598
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Robert E. Chaddock The Function of Statistics in
Undergraduate Training . . . . . . . . . 1--8
W. L. Crum The Statistical Allocation of Joint
Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--24
M. O. Lorenz The Statistical Allocation of Joint
Costs: Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Fred R. Macaulay The Construction of an Index Number of
Bond Yields in the United States, 1859
to 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
Hornell Hart The Reliability of a Percentage . . . . 40--46
Hugh B. Killough and
Lucy W. Killough Price Making Forces in Cotton Markets 47--54
Bradford B. Smith Combining the Advantages of
First-Difference and
Deviation-From-Trend Methods of
Correlating Time Series . . . . . . . . 55--59
Dorothy Swaine Thomas An Index of British Business Cycles . . 60--63
Walter F. Wilcox International Statistical Institute . . 64--65
Herbert A. Sturges The Choice of a Class Interval . . . . . 65--66
M. O. Lorenz Comment on ``A Formula for Freight
Rates'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 66--68
Charles E. Merriam Report of the President of the Social
Science Research Council for the Year
1925 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--72
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Anonymous Proceedings of the Eighty-Seventh Annual
Meeting of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--93
Robert B. Warren Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 94--96
Willard L. Thorp Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 96--99
Mordecai Ezekiel Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 99--101
John Rice Miner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 101--102
W. A. Paton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 102--105
William O. Weyforth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 105--107
John A. Fitch Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 108--110
Irving Fisher Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 110--112
Martin J. Shugrue Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 112--112
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 113--118
Walter Crosby Eells The Relative Merits of Circles and Bars
for Representing Component Parts . . . . 119--132
John B. Canning The Formation of Frequency Distributions 133--148
C. C. Bosland Forecasting the Price of Wheat . . . . . 149--161
Sewall Wright A Frequency Curve Adapted to Variation
in Percentage Occurrence . . . . . . . . 162--178
E. J. Gumbel Spurious Correlation and Its
Significance to Physiology . . . . . . . 179--194
E. Roesle Classification of Causes of Deaths and
Death Registration: Principle and
Objects of the Classification of the
Causes of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
Lincoln W. Hall The Determination of Past and Present
Secular Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--212
Poul Heiberg The Variability in the Difference
Between the Mortality of Men and Women
in Copenhagen During the Last Twenty
Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
I. M. Rubinow The New Series on Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania Departmental Statistics . . 215--217
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 218--220
Anonymous Sales Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--224
F. Y. Edgeworth and
A. L. Bowley Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 224--230
Anonymous Members Added Since March 1926 . . . . . 231--233
Hilding Anderson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 234--237
Rainard B. Robbins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 237--239
John E. Orchard Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 239--242
Julius H. Parmelee Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 242--243
H. Parker Willis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 243--245
R. von Huhn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 245--247
Helen Sumner Woodbury Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 247--249
Harry Jerome Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 249--250
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
Walter F. Willcox The Past and Future Development of Vital
Statistics in the United States: I, John
Shaw Billings and Federal Vital
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--266
George H. Van Buren The Past and Future Development of Vital
Statistics in the United States: II,
William Alexander King and the Federal
Registration Service, 1900--1906 . . . . 267--272
William H. Guilfoy The Past and Future Development of Vital
Statistics in the United States: III,
Cressy L. Wilbur . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
William H. Davis The Past and Future Development of Vital
Statistics in the United States: IV,
1926 Progress Report in the Campaign to
Bring Every State into the Registration 274--279
Louis I. Dublin The Past and Future Development of Vital
Statistics in the United States: V, The
Present Registration System . . . . . . 279--281
Truman L. Kelley and
Frank S. Salisbury An Iteration Method for Determining
Multiple Correlation Constants . . . . . 282--292
E. L. Thorndike and
Ella Woodyard The Relation of Earning Power to Age in
Professional Workers Under Conditions of
Nearly Free Competition . . . . . . . . 293--309
Mordecai Ezekiel The Determination of Curvilinear
Regression ``Surfaces'' in the Presence
of Other Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 310--320
C. H. Whelden, Jr. The Trend-Seasonal Normal in Time Series 321--329
G. Pietra A Particular Case of Non-Representative
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--332
Elbridge Sibley The Size of Families: a Discussion of
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--334
P. K. Whelpton Occupational Groups in the United
States, 1820--1920 . . . . . . . . . . . 335--343
Irving Fisher Revision of the Weekly Index Number . . 344--346
Arne Fisher A Criticism of Professor Chaddock's
``Principles and Methods of Statistics'' 347--350
Robert E. Chaddock [A Criticism of Professor Chaddock's
``Principles and Methods of
Statistics'': a Reply] . . . . . . . . . 350--350
Warren F. Hickernell A Basis of Forecasting National Income 350--353
J. S. Davis A Scale for Plotting Logarithmic Curves 353--353
Anonymous Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 353--354
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 354--357
Anonymous Members Added Since June, 1926 . . . . . 358--359
Harold Hotelling Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 360--363
Dorothy Swaine Thomas Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 363--365
F. H. Hankins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 365--366
Lowell J. Reed Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 367--367
Amy Hewes Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 367--369
Grosvenor Jones Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 370--371
James W. Glover Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 371--372
Carter Goodrich Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 372--373
Alfred J. Lotka Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 374--374
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 375--379
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Anonymous Constitution and By-Laws of the American
Statistical Association . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous [Members of the American Statistical
Association] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--42
Anonymous Quarterly Publications of the American
Statistical Association . . . . . . . . 43--65
George H. Knibbs The Laws of Growth of a Population . . . 381--398
Karl G. Karsten The Harvard Business Indexes --- a New
Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--418
James W. Glover Requirements for Statisticians and their
Training: Statistical Teaching in
American Colleges and Universities . . . 419--446
Frederick C. Mills An Hypothesis Concerning the Duration of
Business Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--457
Walter F. Willcox Arrests and Deaths Since 1920
Attributable to Alcohol . . . . . . . . 458--465
Carl Snyder A New Composite Index of Wages in the
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--470
D. W. Ellsworth and
Ruth Houghton A New Weekly Index of Commodity Prices 471--475
George A. Lundberg The Disappearing ``Public'' . . . . . . 476--477
W. S. Rossiter United States Cars in Canada . . . . . . 478--479
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 479--480
Anonymous The Price Trend . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--485
Anonymous Increasing Labor Stability . . . . . . . 485--489
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 489--491
Anonymous Members Added Since September, 1926 . . 491--492
Sewall Wright Book Review: \booktitleThe Biology of
Population Growth, by Raymond Pearl;
\booktitleThe Natural Increase of
Mankind, by J. Shirley Sweeney . . . . . 493--497
F. W. Taussig Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 497--499
Winfield W. Riefler Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 499--503
Harold Hotelling Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 503--505
J. M. Clark Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 506--507
H. A. Millis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 508--509
W. A. Berridge Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 509--510
Joseph E. Pogue Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 511--512
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 513--517
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Leonard P. Ayres The Dilemma of the New Statistics . . . 1--8
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Howard J. Banker The Competitive Factor in Skewness . . . 9--21
Mordecai Ezekiel Two Methods of Forecasting Hog Prices 22--30
R. von Huhn Further Studies in the Graphic Use of
Circles and Bars: a Discussion of the
Eell's Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39
Ralph J. Watkins Measuring the Fluctuations of Employment
in the Ohio Construction Industry . . . 40--48
George H. Knibbs The Laws of Growth of a Population . . . 49--59
Herbert Marshall Differentiation in Index Numbers of
Security Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Edward L. Thorndike and
Ella Woodyard The Effect of Violent Price-Fluctuations
Upon the Salaries of Clergymen . . . . . 66--74
J. Arthur Harris The Calculation of Moments About the
Mean as Origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--78
Robert M. Woodbury and
F. H. Hankins Infant Mortality and the Business Cycle 79--81
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 81--82
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 82--86
Anonymous Members Added Since December, 1926 . . . 86--88
Anonymous Proceedings of the Eighty-Eighth Annual
Meeting of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108
Joseph S. Davis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 109--115
W. A. Paton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 116--118
Warren S. Thompson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 119--120
Charles O. Hardy Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 120--122
Ralph G. Hurlin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 122--123
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 123--125
Jacob Viner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 125--126
Anonymous [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
R. Von Huhn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 128--129
Horace Secrist Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 129--129
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 130--133
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Willford I. King Wealth Distribution in the Continental
United States at the Close of 1921 . . . 135--153
Alfred J. Lotka The Size of American Families in the
Eighteenth Century: And the Significance
of the Empirical Constants in the
Pearl-Reed Law of Population Growth . . 154--170
E. M. Miller and
F. J. Cavanaugh Price Index of the National Bank of
Commerce in New York . . . . . . . . . . 171--183
Harry Sylvester Will A Measure of Stability with a Discussion
of Certain of its Implications . . . . . 184--194
W. Randolph Burgess Factors Affecting Changes in Short Terms
Interest Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
Paul R. Rider Analysis of a U-Shaped Frequency
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--208
Edwin B. Wilson Probable Inference, the Law of
Succession, and Statistical Inference 209--212
J. C. Clendenin Measurement of Variations in Seasonal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
Irving Fisher Report to Date of the Weekly Index
Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
Willford I. King Classification of Members of American
Statistical Association on Basis of
Duties and Interests . . . . . . . . . . 224--226
C. Luther Fry Answers to the Review of ``American
Villagers'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Willard L. Thorp Comment on the Review of ``Business
Annals'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous An Addition to the New Composite Index
of Wages in the United States . . . . . 229--229
C. H. Whelden, Jr. A Retraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 230--231
Anonymous Can Dependency and Relief be Measured? 231--234
Anonymous Forecasting the Volume of Orders or
Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Anonymous Obituary Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Anonymous Personal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--242
Anonymous Members Added Since March, 1927 . . . . 242--246
Rufus S. Tucker Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 247--249
E. A. Goldenweiser Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 249--252
James W. Angell Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 252--255
Margaret Loomis Stecker Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 255--257
R. B. Warren Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 257--258
David S. Roswell Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 258--261
Alvin H. Hansen Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 261--262
Dorothy Swaine Thomas Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 262--263
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 263--264
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 265--270
F. G. Tryon An Index of Consumption of Fuels and
Water Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--282
Harold Hotelling Differential Equations Subject to Error,
and Population Estimates . . . . . . . . 283--314
Woodlief Thomas Construction of an Index Number of
Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330
M. R. Neifeld A Study of Spurious Correlation . . . . 331--338
F. L. Carmichael Methods of Computing Seasonal Indexes:
Constant and Progressive . . . . . . . . 339--354
L. Galvani The New Organization of the Statistical
Services in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . 355--358
M. Estelle Moulton and
Raymond E. Pannier Ratio of Wages to Value Added by
Manufacturing Processes in
Massachussetts and the United States . . 359--366
Alvin H. Hansen Karsten's Interpretation of the Harvard
Business Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--369
George R. Davies The Growth Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--374
D. C. Elliott A Weekly Index of Distribution . . . . . 375--379
Anonymous Progress of Work in the Census Bureau:
The Census of Religious Bodies: 1926 . . 380--381
Anonymous Factors Influencing the Movements of
Security Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--385
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 386--389
Anonymous Personal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--390
Anonymous Obituary Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Members Added Since June, 1927 . . . . . 390--393
Faith M. Williams Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 394--397
Mordecai Ezekiel Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 397--400
Bryce M. Stewart Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 400--401
Arne Fisher Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 402--404
G. P. Watkins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 404--405
W. A. Berridge Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 405--406
Louis Bloch Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 406--408
Willford I. King Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 408--409
R. von Huhn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 409--411
Harold Hotelling Book Review: R. A. Fisher,
\booktitleStatistical Methods for
Research Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 413--417
Irving Fisher The ``Total Value Criterion'': a New
Principle in Index Number Construction 419--441
Bradford Bixby Smith Forecasting the Volume and Value of the
Cotton Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--459
J. Arthur Harris and
Alan E. Treloar On a Limitation in the Applicability of
the Contingency Coefficient . . . . . . 460--472
Frederick E. Croxton and
Roy E. Stryker Bar Charts Versus Circle Diagrams . . . 473--482
O. Gressens and
E. D. Mouzon, Jr. The Validity of Correlation in Time
Sequences and a New Coefficient of
Similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--492
Aryness Joy and
Woodlief Thomas Adjustments for the Influence of Easter
in Department Stores Sales . . . . . . . 493--496
H. R. Tolley and
Mordecai Ezekiel The Doolittle Method for Solving
Multiple Correlation Equations Versus
the Kelley--Salisbury ``Iteration''
Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--500
Margaret H. Hogg The Determination of the Mean Deviation
for Graded Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--504
H. D. Comer and
Ralph J. Watkins Forecasting a Line by Itself . . . . . . 505--507
Anonymous The Social Science Research Council
Fellowship Appointments . . . . . . . . 508--510
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau:
Defining Enumeration Districts . . . . . 510--513
Ethelbert Stewart Recent Developments in the Bureau of
Labor Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--514
Anonymous Statistical Developments in China . . . 514--515
J. M. Gillman Answer to the Review of ``Rent Levels
and their Causes'' . . . . . . . . . . . 515--516
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 517--518
Anonymous Personal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--520
Anonymous Members Added Since September, 1927 . . 520--521
James W. Glover Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 522--523
G. Irving Gavett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 523--527
Robert Warren Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 527--528
William C. Beyer Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 528--532
E. B. Wilson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 532--532
Faith M. Williams Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 532--536
Charles O. Hardy Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 536--537
William O. Weyforth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 538--542
Melville J. Herskovits Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 542--544
Isador Lubin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 544--545
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 546--550
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Edmund E. Day The Role of Statistics in Business
Forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
W. V. Lovitt Index Number Bias . . . . . . . . . . . 10--17
Walter F. Willcox The Population of China in 1910 . . . . 18--30
A. L. Bowley The Standard Deviation of the
Correlation Coefficient . . . . . . . . 31--34
Stephen Varga An Expression for the Asymmetrical
Tendency of Frequency Distributions . . 35--39
Nathan P. Levin A Statistical Study of the Economic and
Sociological Significance of Population
Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--48
Forrest Bee Ashby An Aggregative Index of Farm Purchasing
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--54
Robert E. Moritz An Elementary Proof of Stirling's
Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
Thomas N. Jenkins Apparatus to Facilitate the Calculation
of the Moments of a Distribution . . . . 58--60
L. J. Norton Average Variations in Yields, Acreage
and Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Roden Fuller Occupations of the Mexican-Born
Population of Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona, 1900--1920 . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
W. I. K. Price Trends and Prosperity . . . . . . 68--72
W. I. K. New Methods of Measuring Public Health
Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 76--77
Emil Frankel Some Suggestions for Securing
Standardized Criminal Statistics . . . . 77--78
R. L. Forney A Standard Reporting System for Public
Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 81--86
R. von Huhn A Correction: Book Reviews . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Members Added Since December, 1927 . . . 86--88
Holbrook Working Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 89--94
Willard L. Thorp Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 94--97
Ralph H. Blanchard Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 97--100
George E. Barnett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 100--101
Charles B. Davenport Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 101--102
I. M. Rubinow Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 102--104
Jacob H. Hollander Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 104--106
Robert W. Burgess and
W. Randolph Burgess Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 106--107
John G. Rolph Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 107--108
H. K. Herwitz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 108--109
Robert Henderson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 109--109
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 110--114
Edgar Sydenstricker The Statistician's Place in Public
Health Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--120
Simon Kuznets On Moving Correlation of Time Sequences 121--136
Robert M. Davis Long-Time Guarantees of Prosperity . . . 137--143
W. A. Shewhart and
F. W. Winters Small Samples--New Experimental Results 144--153
Carl Snyder The Index of Volume of Trade: Second
Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--163
Ruth McChesney The Graphical Construction of Moving
Averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--172
C. Luther Fry Illegal Entry of Orientals into the
United States Between 1910 and 1920 . . 173--177
J. Arthur Harris and
Marie M. Ness The Probable Error of the Standard
Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
L. W. Wage Rates and Per Capita Productivity 180--181
K. W. J. The Cotton Crop and its Price . . . . . 181--184
R. W. B. The Analysis of Data Among Business
Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--187
F. Stuart Chapin Social Science Abstracts . . . . . . . . 187--188
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 188--190
Raymond Pearl International Population Union . . . . . 190--192
Wesley C. Mitchell Activities of the Social Science
Research Council . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
R. W. B. Indexes of Production of Agricultural
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--195
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 196--200
Anonymous Members Added Since March, 1928 . . . . 200--204
Mordecai Ezekiel Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 205--208
Leverett S. Lyon Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 208--211
John D. Black Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 211--213
Alvin H. Hansen Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 213--214
Henry Schultz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 215--216
George Ward Stocking Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 216--218
Simon Kuznets Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 218--220
J. M. Clark Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 220--224
Dorothy J. Orchard Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 224--227
John G. Rolph Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 227--228
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 228--230
John B. Andrews Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 230--231
Frank D. Graham Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 232--233
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 234--239
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Aryness Joy and
Woodlief Thomas The Use of Moving Averages in the
Measurement of Seasonal Variations . . . 241--252
F. L. Carmichael The Arc Tangent in Trend Determination 253--262
Edith Elmer Wood The Statistics of Room Congestion:
Purpose and Technique . . . . . . . . . 263--273
Dorothy C. Bacon The Significance of Fixed-Base and Link
Relatives in Studies of Price Stability
--- a Comment on the Behavior of Prices 274--281
A. O. Bauman Thirteen-Months-Ratio-First-Difference
Method of Measuring Seasonal Variation 282--290
A. E. Brandt The Use of Machine Factoring in Multiple
Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--295
C. H. Forsyth Monthly Items of Secular Trend
Corresponding to Known Yearly Items . . 296--300
Morris A. Copeland An Estimate of Total Volume of Debits to
Individual Accounts in the United States 301--303
Walter F. Willcox Military Losses in the World War . . . . 304--305
Anonymous Interim Report of the Proceedings of the
First General Assembly of the
International Union for the Scientific
Investigation of Population Problems . . 306--317
Anonymous Statistics of the Insurance Business . . 318--320
J. J. Babb Migration of Industry . . . . . . . . . 320--321
J. A. H. Legislation for the Fifteenth Census . . 321--323
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 324--332
Anonymous Members Added Since June, 1928 . . . . . 332--334
Robert W. Burgess Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 335--336
Sewall Wright Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 336--339
F. E. Richter Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 339--342
James W. Angell Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 342--343
C. B. Davenport Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 344--344
Ernest Minor Patterson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 344--346
Harold Hotelling Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 346--346
K. M. Williamson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 347--349
Amy Hewes Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 350--351
C. R. Chambers Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 351--351
Melville J. Herskovits Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 352--354
R. von Huhn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 354--354
Winfield W. Riefler Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 354--355
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 356--360
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Anonymous Past Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Constitution and By-Laws of the American
Statistical Association . . . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous [Members of the American Statistical
Association] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--52
Anonymous [Publications of the American
Statistical Association] . . . . . . . . 53--80
Ardis T. Monk and
Helen R. Jeter The Logistic Curve and the Prediction of
the Population of the Chicago Region . . 361--385
Mollie Ray Carroll Recent Improvements in German Social
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--397
Simon Kuznets On the Analysis of Time Series . . . . . 398--410
C. C. Camp Devices for Computing the Rates Together
with a Statistical Study of Building and
Loan Associations . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
Le Grand Powers Factors Producing Unequal Wealth
Distribution and Ownership and
Measurements of Their Influence . . . . 417--428
Irving Fisher Weekly Wholesale Index: Sixth Report . . 429--434
Willford I. King The Relationship in a Frequency Polygon
of the Average of Any Class to the
Mid-Point of the Corresponding
Class-Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--439
A. L. Bowley Economic and Social Survey of London . . 440--440
Robert W. Bachelor Freight Traffic of California Cities . . 440--441
Elbridge Sibley A Graphic Device for Arithmetic or
Geometric Interpolation . . . . . . . . 441--442
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 442--444
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 445--449
Anonymous Members Added Since September, 1928 . . 449--451
Arthur Newsholme Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 452--453
Theodore O. Yntema Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 453--455
Frederick E. Croxton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 455--456
John V. Van Sickle Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 456--457
J. R. Musselman Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 457--459
Asher Achinstein Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 459--461
Edgar Sydenstricker Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 462--463
Horace Secrist Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 463--464
Warren B. Catlin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 464--466
J. Douglas Brown Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 466--468
Alfred L. Bernheim Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 468--470
George W. Dowrie Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 470--472
Shelby M. Harrison Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 472--473
Owen L. Dawson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 474--474
William F. Ogburn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 474--475
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 476--480
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Carl Snyder The Problem of Prosperity . . . . . . . 1--14
Jean Downes The Accuracy of the Recorded Birth
Statistics in Urban and Rural Areas . . 15--27
Asher Achinstein Can Budget and Cost-of-Living Studies Be
Used As Aids in Determining a
Differential Wage? . . . . . . . . . . . 28--39
Gladys L. Palmer The Physical Measurements of Hollins
Freshmen, 1920--1927 . . . . . . . . . . 40--49
Louis Bloch Facts About Mexican Immigration Before
and Since the Quota Restriction Laws . . 50--60
Bradford Bixby Smith Another Attempt to Explain Multiple
Correlation in Simple Terms . . . . . . 61--65
Raymond Pearl and
Lowell J. Reed The Population of an Area Around Chicago
and the Logistic Curve . . . . . . . . . 66--67
A. W. McMillen A Registration Area for Social
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
W. I. K. Interest Rates and Security Prices . . . 69--72
R. W. B. Bank Credit and the Security Market . . 72--74
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 74--75
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 76--80
J. A. H. Personal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
Anonymous Members Added Since December, 1928 . . . 82--85
Maurice Taylor Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 86--89
L. H. Bean Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 89--90
P. F. Brissenden Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 90--92
Harry Gunnison Brown Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 92--93
Walter R. Gardner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 94--95
W. A. Paton Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 96--97
M. K. Bennett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 98--99
W. Randolph Burgess Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 100--100
William J. Shultz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 101--102
Abbott Payson Usher Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 102--102
Alfred J. Lotka Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 103--104
R. S. Meriam Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 104--105
Rainard B. Robbins Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 105--105
Jurgen Kuczynski Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 106--106
Morris A. Copeland Special Purpose Indexes for the Equation
of Exchange for the United States,
1919--1927 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122
A. J. Page On the Annual Revision of Forecasting
Formulas Based on Partial Regression
Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--126
F. Gardiner Perry A New Index of the Physical Volume of
Canadian Business . . . . . . . . . . . 127--143
Frederick V. Waugh The Use of Isorropic Lines in
Determining Regression Surfaces . . . . 144--151
E. M. Burns Statistics and Economic Forecasting . . 152--163
Truman L. Kelley and
Quinn McNemar Doolittle Versus the Kelley--Salisbury
Iteration Method for Computing Multiple
Regression Coefficients . . . . . . . . 164--169
Walter Crosby Eells Formulas for Probable Errors of
Coefficients of Correlation . . . . . . 170--173
Ralph Fletcher and
Mildred Fletcher A Statistical Analysis of Juvenile
Employment in St. Louis . . . . . . . . 174--177
Willford I. King Central Collection of Social Statistics 178--181
Willford I. King Economic Outlook for 1929 . . . . . . . 182--187
Anonymous Fellowships of the Social Science
Research Council . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--189
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 189--191
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 192--199
W. C. M. and
J. A. H. Personal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--203
Anonymous Members Added Since March, 1929 . . . . 203--206
Philip G. Wright Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 207--215
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Mordecai Ezekiel Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 215--215
R. G. Hawtrey Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 216--219
Willford I. King Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 220--221
H. L. Rietz Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 221--221
Z. Clark Dickinson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 221--223
W. A. Berridge Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 224--225
Carl E. Parry Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 225--227
Charles O. Hardy Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 227--229
F. G. Tryon Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 229--230
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
P. K. Whelpton Differentials in True Natural Increase 233--249
Richard A. Robb The Variate Difference Method of
Seasonal Variation . . . . . . . . . . . 250--257
Simon Kuznets Random Events and Cyclical Oscillations 258--275
H. LaRue Frain Some Observations Concerning the
Assumption of Normal Working Time . . . 276--287
Faith M. Williams The Measurement of the Demand for Food 288--295
Arthur F. Burns The Geometric Mean of Percentages . . . 296--300
Donald S. Thompson and
Robert W. Bachelor The Use of Overlapping Quarterly Indexes
in Erratic Series . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Stuart A. Rice and
Morris Green Interlocking Memberships of Social
Science Societies . . . . . . . . . . . 303--306
Willford I. King Financing the Nation's Trade and
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--311
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 311--314
Anonymous Unemployment Inquiry in the Fifteenth
Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--316
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 316--325
Anonymous Personal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
Anonymous Members Added Since June, 1929 . . . . . 327--329
Norman J. Silberling Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 330--331
Alfred J. Lotka Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 332--333
John E. Orchard Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 334--335
Winfield W. Riefler Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 335--337
Max Sasuly Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 337--337
Maurice Leven Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 337--338
Willard L. Thorp Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 339--340
Rudolf Baumgartner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 340--341
Margaret G. Myers Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 341--343
Harry Jerome Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 343--344
Ralph H. Blanchard Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 344--345
Thurston P. Blodgett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 345--345
Frank H. Knight Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 345--346
Carter Goodrich Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 346--347
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
G. R. Davies The Analysis of Frequency Distributions 349--366
J. Arthur Harris and
Chi Tu A Second Category of Limitations in the
Applicability of the Contingency
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--375
Willard L. Thorp Horsepower Statistics for Manufactures 376--385
L. H. Bean A Simplified Method of Graphic
Curvilinear Correlation . . . . . . . . 386--397
Mary Johnston The Need for an Index for Social Data 398--404
A. J. Beyleveld Determination of a Precise Indication of
Change in Crop Acreage . . . . . . . . . 405--411
Forrest Bee Ashby Cotton Futures as Forecasters of Cotton
Spot Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--419
Arthur F. Burns The Relative Importance of Check and
Cash Payments in the United States,
1919--1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--424
A. W. Zelomek The New Trend in Distribution . . . . . 425--427
J. A. H. Progress of Work in the Census Bureau 427--431
Anonymous Miscellaneous Notes . . . . . . . . . . 431--434
Anonymous Personal Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Anonymous Members Added Since September, 1929 . . 435--436
Holbrook Working Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 437--441
Ralph G. Hurlin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 442--443
George O. May Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 443--444
Edmond E. Lincoln Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 444--445
Simon Kuznets Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 445--446
Niles Carpenter Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 446--447
Melvin T. Copeland Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 447--449
John G. Rolph Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 449--449
Kemper Simpson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 449--450
G. B. L. Arner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 450--452
E. W. Kopf Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 452--453
Frederick C. Mills Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 453--454
Fred E. Clark Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 454--455
Anonymous Recent Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 456--456
Anonymous Ninety-First Annual Meeting of the
American Statistical Association held at
Hotel Washington, Washington, D.C.
Friday, December 27, to Monday, December
30, 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Lewis H. Haney Corporation Accounting Data From the
Standpoint of the Investor . . . . . . . 7--12
Harold G. Parker Needs of Investors With Respect to
Corporation Statistics . . . . . . . . . 13--17
George P. Watkins Problems in the Utilization and
Interpretation of Corporation Statistics 18--22
E. Dana Durand Federal Corporation Statistics . . . . . 23--30
Garfield V. Cox Evaluation of Economic Forecasts . . . . 31--35
Seymour L. Andrew and
Harold M. Flinn Appraisal of Economic Forecasts . . . . 36--41
Donald Tucker and
Arthur W. Marget and
John G. Thompson Appraisal of Economic Forecasts:
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
E. Dana Durand The Foreign Trade of 1929 . . . . . . . 51--55
Joseph L. Snider Production and Prices in 1929 . . . . . 56--57
A. B. Genung The 1929 Agricultural Season . . . . . . 58--63
Thomas S. Holden The Building Situation . . . . . . . . . 64--68
E. A. Goldenweiser Credit Developments in 1929 . . . . . . 69--72
Willford I. King A Hasty Estimate of the National Income
in 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
James F. Hughes Security Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Robert C. Effinger Corporate Earnings and Stock Prices . . 80--82
Leland Rex Robinson The Role of Investment Companies in the
Security Markets of 1929 . . . . . . . . 83--87
Carl Snyder Brokers' Loans and the Pyramiding of
Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--92
Irving Fisher The Stock Market Panic in 1929 . . . . . 93--96
Paul Clay Forecasts for 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Malcolm C. Rorty Measuring Investment Values . . . . . . 100--105
Norris O. Johnson and
John T. Shirer Certain Aspects of the Interpretation of
Price-Earnings Ratios . . . . . . . . . 106--110
Lionel D. Edie Certain Aspects of the Interpretation of
Price-Earnings Ratios: Discussion . . . 110--112
Leon E. Truesdell The Census of Population . . . . . . . . 113--116
Charles E. Persons Unemployment as a Census Problem . . . . 117--120
Le Verne Beales The Census of Manufactures . . . . . . . 121--124
Robert J. McFall The Census of Distribution . . . . . . . 125--129
William Lane Austin The Census of Agriculture . . . . . . . 130--134
Faith M. Williams Scales for Family Measurement . . . . . 135--139
Warren C. Waite Some Developments in the Techniques of
Studying Consumer Demand . . . . . . . . 140--145
Max Sasuly Generalized Multiple Correlation
Analysis of Economic Statistical Series 146--152
Charlotte Chatfield Statistical Analysis in Food Composition
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Louis H. Bean Agriculture in the Post-War Decade . . . 155--157
Leo Wolman American Labor Since 1920 . . . . . . . 158--163
Morris A. Copeland Recent Changes in Our Wholesale Price
Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--169
Marcus Nadler Europe Ten Years After the War . . . . . 170--174
Robert B. Warren Europe Ten Years After the War:
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--176
Anonymous Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting 177--198
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??