 Statistisch onderzoek van contrôle‐analyse cijfers: (De verdeling van het droge stofgehalte van het brood tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog)Ir Th. Hekker and Ir J. Straub Statistica Neerlandica, 1948, vol. 2, issue 4, 155-171 Abstract: Summary (Statistical investigation of the distribution of data for the solids of bread (in loaves analysed in the Food Inspection Laboratory in Amsterdam)) The distributions of the data of the solids of bread as analysed during the years of the war are investigated. The means and the standard deviations are calculated, also χ2, kurtosis and skewness supposing the distributions to be normal. An example of calculation is given in table I. Actual numbers for different years are given in table II and in table III. The distributions were tested on normality because former investigations showed that the distribution of under survey prepared loaves did not deviate significantly from the normal. It is found that generally the investigated distributions cannot be regarded as normal. Though symmetric they show leptokurtosis and the χ2‐test for the goodness of fit of normal equation gives values of P 0,01 (or a little more). Similar distributions were found by Clancey1) in his investigation of numbers of chemical analyses of industrial products (about 10% of the distributions showed this shape, some 10% were truncated leptokurtic curves) and by us for the fat percentage of meals from the governmental eating‐houses. The distributions are represented on probability‐paper. This way of representing results gives a clear view of the variations of the mean and the standarddeviation in the course of the years (fig. 1). The deviations of the shape of the normal straight line on probability paper by special causes is investigated (fig. 3, fig. 4, fig. 5, fig. 6 to be compared with fig. 2). With this “spectrum” of possibilities of deviations from the normal distribution in mind the special cause for the leptokurtic shape in our special case has been discussed. Date: 1948 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:stanee:v:2:y:1948:i:4:p:155-171 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Statistica Neerlandica is currently edited by Miroslav Ristic, Marijtje van Duijn and Nan van Geloven More articles in Statistica Neerlandica from Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research |
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