David M Smith <david <at> revolution-computing.com> writes: > > David Andrew Smith from XL Solutions emailed me privately to clear up the > confusion, too (thanks, David A). To avoid any future confusion, I'll use > my middle initial (M) from now on. > > To get this thread back to R and statistics, there might be an interesting > counting problem here somewhere. :) What are the chances that two David > Smiths could both be working for companies in the US that support R? > > I'm not a geneaologist, but the US census bureau publishes some statistics > on the frequency of names here: > > http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html >
See also http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/09/wheres_the_othe.html Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ 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.