Anthropometric survey of the United Provinces, 1941: a statistical study
PC Mahalanobis, DN Majumdar, MWM Yeatts…�- Sankhyā: The Indian�…, 1949 - JSTOR
PC Mahalanobis, DN Majumdar, MWM Yeatts, CR Rao
Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 1949•JSTOR1. This is a composite paper by three persons, DN Majumdar, a trained anthro pologist, and
two statisticians. Certain portions of the paper would be primarily of interest to
anthropologists, and certain portions to applied statisticians. It will be useful therefore to
indicate the plan of the paper. 2. DN Majumdar gives in Part I of the paper a general account
of the field survey which was personally conducted by him in connexion with the Population
Census in India in 1941. He also gives a description of the definitions and technique used�…
two statisticians. Certain portions of the paper would be primarily of interest to
anthropologists, and certain portions to applied statisticians. It will be useful therefore to
indicate the plan of the paper. 2. DN Majumdar gives in Part I of the paper a general account
of the field survey which was personally conducted by him in connexion with the Population
Census in India in 1941. He also gives a description of the definitions and technique used�…
1. This is a composite paper by three persons, DN Majumdar, a trained anthro pologist, and two statisticians. Certain portions of the paper would be primarily of interest to anthropologists, and certain portions to applied statisticians. It will be useful therefore to indicate the plan of the paper.
2. DN Majumdar gives in Part I of the paper a general account of the field survey which was personally conducted by him in connexion with the Population Census in India in 1941. He also gives a description of the definitions and technique used by him. The present material consist of measurements of about 12 characters for 2836 individuals belong ing to 22 castes and tribes residing in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh in India. The present measurements constitute one of the largest series of individual measurements in India taken by any single observer, and thus supplied valuable material for statistical pur poses. This is why the individual measurements are being published in full at the end of this paper.
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