On the geometrical treatment of the 'normal curve' of statistics, with especial reference to correlation and to the theory of error | Zendy

W. F. Sheppard | Zendy

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On the geometrical treatment of the 'normal curve' of statistics, with especial reference to correlation and to the theory of error

Author(s) -

W. F. Sheppard

Publication year - 1898

Publication title -

proceedings of the royal society of london

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-9126

pISSN - 0370-1662

DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1897.0090

Subject(s) - infinitesimal , mathematics , relation (database) , statistics , calculus (dental) , correlation , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , normal distribution , differential calculus , mathematical analysis , geometry , computer science , orthodontics , data mining , medicine

The object of the paper is, in the first place, to simplify and extend the treatment of normal correlation as expounded by Francis Galton and Karl Pearson; and in the second place to obtain general formuIæ in the theory of error, and to apply them to questions which arise in relation to normal distributions and normal correlation. The method is, throughout, elementary, the use of the differential and integral calculus being avoided, though geometrical infinitesimals are to a certain extent employed.

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