History, Theory, and Technique of Statistics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, etc. As the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his Neighbors of Holland, Zealand, and France. He complains in it of the lack of figures based on actual enumeration and says of his method,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, etc. As the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his Neighbors of Holland, Zealand, and France. He complains in it of the lack of figures based on actual enumeration and says of his method, I have taken the course to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure, to use only Arguments of Sense and to consider only such Causes as have visible Foundations in Nature. His posthumous works were published in 1690 and 1699 by John Williamson. In 1696 Gregory King calculated from the hearth tax, assessed in 1690 on 1,319,215 houses, the population of England at five and a half million souls. Numerous similar calculations are to be found in the Philosophical Transactions of this period. 14. Edmund Halley's Mortality Tables. In order to prove that it was superstitious to ascribe any special importance to the seventh and ninth year for the expectation of life, the prebendary Caspar Neumann of Breslau collected from the parish registers of the city, in the years 1687-91, notes of 5869 deaths, from which he counted those falling in the fateful years and those lying between. These figures and the notes on which they were based came into the possession of the Royal Society in 1692, as it appears through the intervention of Leibnitz. The Society asked Halley for an expression of opinion on them. Edmund Halley (born 1656, died 1742), who made at St. Helena in 1676 a catalogue of the stars of the southern heavens, and calculated in 1681 the comet bearing his name, made in 1693 a report which was printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for that year (Vol. XVII., Nos. 196 and 198) under the title An Estimate of the Degrees of Mortality of...