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other terms of odd order which will vanish on summation.

Summing for all values and dividing by the number of cases we get

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where is the correlation between and .

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Hence or there is no correlation between and .

Section III.

To find the equation representing the frequency distribution of the means of samples of drawn from a normal population, the mean being expressed in terms of the standard deviation of the sample.

We have as the equation representing the distribution of , the standard deviation of a sample of , when the samples are drawn from a normal population with standard deviation .

Now the means of these samples of are distributed according to the equation

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and we have shown that there is no correlation between , the distance of the mean of the sample, and , the standard deviation of the sample.

Now let us suppose measured in terms of , i.e. let us find the distribution of .

If we have and as the equations representing the frequency of and of respectively, then

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  1. Airy, Theory of Errors of Observations, Part II. § 6.