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...LECTURE. "The Progress and Results of Industrial Insurance, 1875-1909." Mr. Frederick L. Hoffman, Chief Statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, of Newark, N. J. Emerson...
Worthington Chauncey Ford, "Economist and statistician, editor of 'Washington's Letters and Writings,' chief of the division of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, accurate and comprehensive scholar...
...North is a prominent journalist and statistician, having been successively managing editor of the Utica Morning Herald, president of the New York State Associated Press, and editor and proprietor of the Albany Express. President McKinley appointed him a member of the United States Industrial Commission in 1898, but he resigned the next year to become chief statistician of manufactures for the twelfth census. In 1903 he was appointed director of the United States census bureau. He is the author of "An American Textile Glossary," "A History of the American Wool Manufacture," and of numerous pamphlets on economic and industrial subjects...
...labor twelve years ago, though considered valuable at that time, is now entirely discredited on account of his incorrect method of classification. The great development in the treatment of wages statistics has come from this side of the water. Entering upon a field new and unexplored, the American statistician gradually evolved the system of individual classification with the concentration method. For this method there is a classification of weekly wages and a determination of percentages of the number receiving those wages. When this concentration system is used in connection with one industry, as for instance, cotton goods manufacture, the greatest...
...problem for the statistician is a difficult one. He must use no a priori methods but must analyze accurately a great mass of facts and give the public results that can be depended upon...