I’m surprised no on has reference the F distribution where the degrees of freedom are manifestly plural.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 25, 2018, at 6:05 PM, John <j...@surewest.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:16:24 -0400 > JRG <loesl...@accucom.net> wrote: > >>> On 06/24/2018 08:03 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: >>> Ted, et. al.: >>> >>> Re: "Data is" vs "data are" ... Heh heh! >>> >>> "This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put." >>> (Attributed to Churchill in one form or another, likely wrongly.) >>> >>> See here for some semi-authoritative dicussion: >>> >>> http://www.onlinegrammar.com.au/top-10-grammar-myths-data-is-plural-so-must-take-a-plural-verb/ >>> >> >> >> Hmmm. "semi-authoritative or not", the 1980 Edition of the Oxford >> American dictionary says: >> >> "data (day-ta) n. pl. facts or information ... 'Data' should not be >> used with a singular verb, as in 'the data is inconclusive'; it is by >> origin a Latin plural (the singular is 'datum') and should be used >> with a plural verb. ..." >> >> >> Interesting how Latin seemed to have changed in the past 40 or so >> years. >> > In fact, "the data are/is inconclusive" is shorthand for a longer > sentence. Data are merely observations. It is only after they are > made and summarized that a conclusion might be reached. In which > case it was the analysis of the data that was inconclusive. Since many > analyses of a single data set can be conducted and they are not > necessarily all going to be inconclusive, it really never was the data > that were inconclusive. > > JWDoughetry > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
