On the Statistical Theory of Errors.
论误差的统计理论
Excerpts from the article: Some of the recent advances in probability and mathematical statistics throw considerable light on the theory of errors. Problems that arise in drawing conclusions from observations are essentially statistical and should be handled as such. Unfortunately, the literature on statistics has received but scant notice from writers of treatises on errors. The present paper is the result of an attempt to gather the elements of the statistics of a single…