Statistical Opportunities and Responsibilities
统计学的机遇与责任
Statistics began as the data of statecraft. Statistical connoted political or governmental. These connotations have never been wholly lost, and recent events have revived and strengthened them. Statistical method has been adopted in wider and wider areas of inquiry, but Government of late has extended its domain with even greater rapidity. To maintain a growing jurisdiction over the affairs of life, Government will be increasingly dependent upon more and more better…