Gerhard Tintner’s Review of S. Koller’s Graphische Tafeln zur Beurteilung statistischer Zahlen (1940)

Tintner’s brief journal book review evaluates Koller’s work as a practical aid to statistical calculation. Its central judgment links the author’s medical-statistical expertise to the graphical tools provided:

This useful book by a medical statistician presents nomograms for various statistical distributions.

The review moves from this favorable characterization to a concise account of coverage: the normal and $\chi^2$ distributions, the distribution of the correlation coefficient, and analysis of variance distributions. This enumeration establishes the range of the book’s statistical tools without discussing their derivation or assessing individual diagrams.

Tintner then identifies the feature that should make those tools accessible:

Numerous well chosen examples taken from practical applications should facilitate the use of the book.

The examples support his recommendation through their relevance to use. The review’s emphasis is therefore on practical assistance, not theoretical innovation; its positive appraisal rests on the combination of graphical presentation, broad statistical coverage, and well-selected applications.