ready-made, rule-books

.	on Page 464:
	"... 464 PART III. SOME THEORY USEFUL IN SAMPLING The Mosteller-Tukey paper is ready-made for this purpose, even though we need only the horizontal scale. The point for x = 1 lies 10 mm. ..."
5.	from Front Matter:
	"... that I add a word here about the hazards of copying sample-designs and field-instructions. There are no simple rule-books nor ready-made sample-designs, and there never will be. The layman dare not copy sampling plans and instructions any more than he would ..."

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ready-made Show phonetics
adjective
bought or found in a finished form and available to use immediately:
a ready-made frozen meal
FIGURATIVE When she married Giles, she acquired a ready-made family - two teenage sons and a daughter.