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On Correlation and the Methods of Modern Statistics

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PROF. KARL PEARSON'S letter in NATURE of September 19 gives me a welcome opportunity of explaining what was not intelligible in the condensed report of my remarks in the discussion at Leicester, on methods of modern statistics.

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HINKS, A. On Correlation and the Methods of Modern Statistics. Nature 76, 566–568 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076566b0

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