Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823). Nightingale (1820- 1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example her letter to Galton about endowing an Oxford professorship in social statistics (reprinted in Karl Pearson's bio of Galton:
http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/search/pearson/vol2/pages/vol2_0482.htm It sets a very ambitious agenda that we have not yet made much progress on... url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > On 28/01/2008, at 12:07 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > >> Jean lobry wrote: >>>> > > <snip> > >>>> about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired - >>>> coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was >>>> doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the >>>> activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the >>>> revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented >>>> several statistical graphs, including the pie chart > > <snip> > > > I have been for many years under the impression that the pie chart > was invented by Florence Nightingale. Am I misinformed? > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > ###################################################################### > Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped: > 9}} > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
