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082 _a310 Mah.
100 _aMahalanobis, P.C.
245 0 _aTeaching of statistics
260 _aDelhi
260 _bUniversity.
260 _c1968
300 _a332p.
520 _aT HE General Conference of Unesco at its eighth session invited the Secretariat to include surveys on criminology, statistics, demography and the administrative sciences. The present report on the teaching of statistics is the second. to appear in the new group, the first dealing with the teaching of criminology. Professor G. Goudswaard, former director of the International Statistical Institute in The Hague, assumed responsibility for the present survey. A first outline, based on a limited number of national reports, was submitted to the twenty-ninth session of the International Statistical Conference, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, which recommended the further collection of data and the extension of the survey to more countries. It also entrusted Professor P. C. Mahalanobis, director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, with the task of preparing a general conspectus based on the results of the inquiry being conducted in 25 countries.
650 _aStatistics.
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