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? >
Yes, indeed. Stigler himself attributes the idea to Robert Merton, and cites his title, 'Stigler's Law of Eponomy' as a perfect example. -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA ______________________________________________ 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.
