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Business & Economics Statistics

Conference on Statistics 1960

Papers

edited by E.F. Beach & J.C. Weldon

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2016
Category
Statistics, Theory, Essays
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442651722
    Publish Date
    Jul 2016
    List Price
    $42.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442633377
    Publish Date
    Dec 2018
    List Price
    $32.95

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In 1958 the Canadian Political Science Association established a committee to look into ways and means of improving statistical research in the social sciences in Canada. One of the ways in which the committee thought this could be done was by establishing an annual forum where papers could be presented and discussed. Eight papers given at the first Conference at Queen's University are contained in this volume. Diverse alike in subject and statistical method---as indeed a collection of papers reflecting the purpose of the founding committee is bound to be---the papers as printed incorporate the discussion that attended their presentation in 1960.

The papers are: K.A.H. Buckley, "Historical Estimates of Internal Migration in Canada,"; Richard E. Du Wurs, Robert Batson, Margaret Daffron, "The 'Mass Society' and 'Community' Analyses of the Social Present"; P.J. Giffen, "Canadian Criminal Statistics"; E.J. Hanson, "The Post-war Rise of the Crude Petroleum Industry"; Gideon Rosenbluth, "Salaries of Engineers and Scientists, 1951"; David N. Solomon, Agnes M. Fergusson, "The Distribution and Functions of Canadian Engineers and Scientists"; K.W. Studnicki-Gizbert, "The Structure and Growth of the Canadian Air Transport Industry"; T.R. Vout, "The Canadian Manufacturing Industry, 1900-57."

About the authors

E.F. Beach was a member of the Department of Economics at Carleton University.

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J.C. Weldon (1923 - 1987) was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University.

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