Calculation and Interpretation of Analysis of Variance and Covariance.

SNEDECOR, George W. [Waddel] (1881-1974):

Published by Ames: Collegiate Press, 1934., 1934

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96 pp; corrections sheet laid in. Original cloth. Very Good. Monograph Number One, Division of Industrial Science, Iowa State College. 'In 1924 Henry A. Wallace, then editor of Wallaces' Farmer and later Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President of the United States, gave a series of ten Saturday afternoon seminars at Iowa State College. He was anxious to pass on to an audience of mainly agricultural and biological research workers the expertise in multiple regression that he had gained primarily in studying the factors influencing corn yields (David, 1998). Wallace summarized these lectures in a bulletin Correlation and Machine Calculation that was put in final shape by Snedecor, one of his listeners. This booklet of just 47 pages (Wallace and Snedecor, 1925) reached worldwide circulation and was Snedecor's first publication, at the age of 42. Soon thereafter Snedecor became aware of R. A. Fisher's fundamental contributions and was among the first in the United States to recognize their great practical importance. This resulted in a major revision of the bulletin (Wallace and Snedecor, 1931), in a small book in which the F-statistic is introduced (Snedecor, 1934, p. 15)' (Encyclopedia of Mathematics). 'In probability theory and statistics, the F-distribution or F-ratio, also known as Snedecor's F distribution or the Fisher Snedecor distribution (after Ronald Fisher and George W. Snedecor), is a continuous probability distribution that arises frequently as the null distribution of a test statistic, most notably in the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and other F-tests' (Wikipedia).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Calculation and Interpretation of Analysis of Variance and Covariance.
• Publisher: Ames: Collegiate Press, 1934.
• Publication Date: 1934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket