IN company, I think, with other correspondents, I have misunderstood Mr. Larden's use of the words “analytical methods.” He alluded, it is true, to resolution and taking moments, but “analytical ...

A NEW departure of some little interest has been recently taken in America in the publication by the United States Hydrographic Department of a new chart, or diagram, for finding readily by a simple ...

Author A.J. Cavallo nicely identified the uses, meanings, and limits of the bell-shaped curve for predicting oil production (OGJ, June 6, 2005, and June 13, 2005). I fully agree that the bell-curve ...

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