1915
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/10.4.488
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Further Evidence of Natural Selection in Man

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“…Elderton and Pearson, ‘Further evidence’. These studies, particularly that of Elderton and Pearson, were subjected to a searing statistical critique by Brownlee, ‘Relation’, who concluded (pp. 237–9) that their correlations merely picked up the periodic ebb and flow of diseases affecting children in the first few years of life.…”
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“…Elderton and Pearson, ‘Further evidence’. These studies, particularly that of Elderton and Pearson, were subjected to a searing statistical critique by Brownlee, ‘Relation’, who concluded (pp. 237–9) that their correlations merely picked up the periodic ebb and flow of diseases affecting children in the first few years of life.…”
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“…The debate on detrending versus differencing is reasonably well known, with significant contributions by Student (), Elderton and Pearson (), Persons () and Yule (). The ‘points’ winner of this debate, in practical terms, was detrending.…”
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“…If 10 per cent, of the infants are affected, assuming that an attack one year establishes some immunity for which there is some evidence though the fact is doubtful, then with the rough periodicity of 2 years the selective correlation should be in the neighbourhood of -'10. That found for the whole of England and Wales is -'16, 3 value not out of the way, but the correlation between the fourth differences is equal to -'91, a value which cannot be conceived, apart 1917.) j,fortality in Subsequent Life.…”
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“…The differences found seem to be due to epidemiological causes. In Manchester in the decade 1881-91, there were 4,OII deaths between the ages of 5 and 10 of which 692 were due to scarlet fever, in the next decade the corresponding figures are 3,154 and 344, giving a net fall in the number of deaths of 857, of which nearly half, 348, were due to scarlet fever. Secondly, the great epidemic of zymotic diarrhoea occurred between the years 1890-1900 and affected Salford like the rest of the country.…”
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