Het ontstaan van een frequentieverdeling*

Abstract

SummaryThe genesis of frequency distributionsThe next set of six short papers reproduces the contents of a series of six talks given at the annual meeting of the ‘Vereniging voor Statistiek’ (Statistical Society) having ‘frequency distributions’ for their subject.In this first and introductory paper the various ways in wich we may conceive a frequency distributions to be generated aye briefly indicated, and the useful conclusions with regard to the underlying sources of variation that may often be drawn from the shape of an observed frequency distribution are pointed out.