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in each period. His table became known as "Edmonds's Mean
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series that Farr acquired a number of central points that
Edmonds was making, in particular about collection of data. Edmonds took to campaigning journalism. In
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and wages, and in postulating the replacement of capitalism by a later stage, which he called the "social system".
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1853).
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The Statistical Movement in Early Victorian Britain
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632:A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts
185:, though this is disputed by Thompson, and an
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587:. Cambridge University Press. p. 174.
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854:. Cambridge University Press. p. 82.
795:. J. & A. Churchill. 1852. p. 468
669:. Cambridge University Press. p. 84.
427:Edmonds, Ricardo, and What Might Have Been
344:(1832) was anonymous at its publication.
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820:. Ordered to be printed. pp. 121–40
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703:. Duke University Press. p. 95.
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210:Practical Moral and Political Economy
126:. It was from the first paper of the
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489:Crook, Denise. "Edmonds, Richard".
1236:. William Pickering. p. 286.
953:Alfredo Morabia (1 January 2004).
697:Libby Schweber (7 November 2006).
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523:"Edmonds, Thomas Rowe (EDMS822TR)"
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283:. He promoted its application to
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326:to the Gompertz model, now the
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919:Tom Brass (9 September 2011).
779:. Harvester Press. p. 98.
735:. Harvester Press. p. 96.
550:Statisticians of The Centuries
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925:. BRILL. p. 37 note 58.
792:The Medical Times and Gazette
635:. Springer. pp. 149–50.
352:. It contains an analysis of
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959:. Springer. p. 151.
553:. Springer. p. 164.
763:Alexander Murray Tulloch
181:Edmonds is considered a
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