On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Andrew Robinson wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> >>> Patrick Burns wrote: >>> >>>> Douglas Bates wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 3/3/2008 9:10 AM, Rogers, James A [PGRD Groton] wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> As someone of partly French heritage, I would also ask how this >>>>>>> distribution came to be called "Gaussian". It seems very >>>>>>> unfair to de >>>>>>> Moivre, who discovered the distribution at least half a >>>>>>> century earlier. >>>>>>> :-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Just an example of Stigler's Law. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Taking this to a whole new level of "off topic", I wonder if >>>>> Stigler's >>>>> Law is self-referential? That is, should Stigler's Law more >>>>> correctly >>>>> be attributed to someone else? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> No. If Stigler's Law were named after some prior person, >>>> then it wouldn't be an example of itself. >>>> >>>> >>> Only if said person actually was first to discover it, surely. >>> >> >> I believe that Stigler believes that he was not the first to discover >> Stigler's Law > Which is why it is an example of itself...
This is getting a bit silly, but I would add, unless the discoverer had the same name, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_conjecture but I reiterate that the original attribution (by Stigler) is to Robert Merton. > > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) > 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) > 35327907 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
