Excerpt from The Wealth and Income The reader of this book will do well to bear in mind that there are two broad varieties of concrete statis tical studies: first, those depending on the correct counting of many individual items; second, those consisting of estimates based on counts made by others. This study is distinctly in the latter class. The estimates have been made, in most instances, from fragmentary material gathered by different persons at different times and for different purposes. In some cases, the original ...
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Excerpt from The Wealth and Income The reader of this book will do well to bear in mind that there are two broad varieties of concrete statis tical studies: first, those depending on the correct counting of many individual items; second, those consisting of estimates based on counts made by others. This study is distinctly in the latter class. The estimates have been made, in most instances, from fragmentary material gathered by different persons at different times and for different purposes. In some cases, the original counts (principally by government officials) were doubtless faulty, but only when the errors were evident has the author attempted to go behind the returns and criticize the validity of government reports. Frequently, estimates have been made on the basis of assumptions that are possibly decidedly erroneous. In some cases, details were filled in by the use of careful. Guesses based on general information only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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