While on the subject of mechanical methods of statistical research I
can't
resist quoting Doob's (1997) Statistical Science interview:
> My system, complicated by my inaccurate typing, led to retyping
> material over and over, and for some time I had an electric drill
> on my desk, provided
Hi Jean,
You haven't yet had a reply from an authoratitive source, so here is my
tuppence worth to part of your enquiry.
It's almost certain that the "receiving box" is a receptacle into which tags
were placed after they had been drawn and the inscribed measurement noted
down. Measurements on t
Dear all,
the dataset documented under ?crimtab was also used in:
@article{TreloarAE1934,
title = {The adequacy of "{S}tudent's" criterion of
deviations in small sample means},
author = {Treloar, A.E. and Wilder, M.A.},
journal = {The Annals of Mathematical Statistics
