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作者：Cockayne, EA
摘要：Lobster claw deformity occurred in 1 [male] of 12 siblings, lobster claw plus cleft palate and hare lip in a [female] the latter had 3 of 5 children affected with lobster claw and 1 [male] and 1 [female] of these had cleft palate and hare lip also. No history was found among the descendents of the first affected.
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作者：Pearson, K
摘要：This vigorous paper is a defense of the method of moments for curve fitting as against the claims of R. A. Fisher''s method of maximum likelihood. It is, in large part, a criticism of R. S. Koshal''s Application of the method of maximum likelihood to the improvement of curves fitted by the method of moments (Journ. Roy. Statistical Soc. 96: p.303, 1933). In reply to the statement that Koshal''s paper gave evidence of the superiority of the likelihood method, Pearson says that the argument is i...
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作者：Pearson, K
摘要：A table published by Maurice Fishberg, based on mean cephalic indices of Jews and Gentiles in the same districts in Russia gave: [sigma]J = 83.05 and oJ = 1.888.121; mG = 83.50 and [sigma]g[long dash]2.093,741, the correlation of the cephalic indices being 0.8365. Contrary to Boas'' contention, Pearson rules out the influence of environment on the index and attributes it to the fact that there is a very considerable amt. of Jewish-Gentile intermarriage. This is borne out by the fact that in Ge...
