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01.09.2011 | In Brief
In Brief: Standard Deviation and Standard Error
Erschienen in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Ausgabe 9/2011
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…I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ``Law of Frequency of Error’’. … Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hands and marshalled in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along. The tops of the marshalled row form a flowing curve of invariable proportion; and each element, as it is sorted in place, finds, as it were, a pre-ordained niche, accurately adapted to fit it.Sir Francis Galton (Natural Inheritance, 1889:66).