the paper Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares for Maximum Likelihood Estimation, and some Robust and Resistant Alternatives, P. J. Green, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), Vol. 46, No. 2. (1984), pp. 149-192,
included the commentary (p 182) Jennrich (University of California at L.A.): ... I have long been a proponent of the following unified field theory for statistics: "Almost all of statistics is linear regression, and most of what is left over is non-linear regression." On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Andrew Robinson wrote: > Dear community, > > I'm trying to track down a quote, but can't recall the source or the > exact structure - not very helpful, I know - something along the lines > that: > > 80% of [applied] statistics is linear regression ... > > ? > > Does this ring a bell for anyone? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Robinson > Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 > University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 > http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr > http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
