Abstracts of unpublished theses on the gifted child found in the School of Education Library at Boston University which were not included in the Gaffney thesis of 1958

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston UniversityAndrews, Charles Herbert. "A Survey of Curriculum Materials of Value for the Teaching of Gifted Elementary School Children in the Language Arts Area." Unpublished Ed. M. Thesis, Boston University School of Education, 1957. Problem. To determine the curriculum materials which should be included in an elementary school classroom devoted to the maximal effective teaching of gifted children in the language arts area. [TRUNCATED

Measures of distance from a randomly located point to neighboring lattice points for rectangular and hexagonal point lattices Technical report no. 3

Probability density function and distribution function of distance from random point in polygon to the nearest corner in lattic

A probability law obtained by compounding the Poisson and half-normal probability laws Technical report no. 4

Discrete probability law obtained by assuming Poisson variable parameter is distributed according to half-normal probability la

Some comments on certain technical aspects on geographic information systems Technical report no. 2

Two-dimensional machine language and spatial statistics for design and development of geographic information system

Philip Dacey on Whitman: An Interview and Four New Poems

Interview with Dacy (40-44) on his ideas about Whitman, followed by four new Whitman-related poems by Dacey: Walt Whitman to Thomas Eakins: From the Lost Correspondence (44-45), Chapter and Verse in Fort Worth (46-47), Headwaters (47-49), and Talcott Williams (49-51)

Anecdotal Experiments: evaluating evidence with few animals

Comparative psychology came into its own as a science of animal minds, so a standard story goes, when it abandoned anecdotes in favor of experimental methods. However, pragmatic constraints significantly limit the number of individual animals included in laboratories experiments. Studies are often published with sample sizes in the single digits, and sometimes samples of one animal. With such small samples, comparative psychology has arguably not actually moved on from its anecdotal roots. Replication failures in other branches of psychology have received substantial attention, but have only recently been addressed in comparative psychology, and have not received serious attention in the attending philosophical literature. I focus on the question of how to interpret findings from experiments with small samples, and whether they can be generalized to other members of the tested species. As a first step, I argue that we should view studies with extreme small sample sizes as anecdotal experiments, lying somewhere between traditional experiments and traditional anecdotes in evidential weight and generalizability