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Notes on Professor Steffensen's First Lecture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
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page 340 note * Lectures on “Some Recent Researches in the Theory of Statistics and Actuarial Science“ [see Review, post, p. 402. Ed. J.I.A.].
page 341 note * The underlining is not in the original text.
page 344 note * Cf. the writer's remarks, J.I.A. Vol. xxxix, p. 218, § 20.
page 346 note * Cf. Mr Robert Henderson's excellent paper, Frequency Curves and Moments, reprinted J.I.A., Vol. XLI, pp. 434-5. Note that his notation differs from Steffensen's: also that on the ninth line of p. 435, ∑x1 2 x2 2 should be preceded by a 2, and the error affects the value of the fourth moment. This will agree with Steffensen's when the necessary corrections are carried through the work.
page 347 note * A simple particular example (binomial distribution) is given as an illustration, and worked out by elementary methods, at the end of these notes see p. 350.
page 347 note † Except (ơ1 which is necessary for the use of equations (B).