Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Philippe Grosjean wrote: > > >I'd vote for the inchworm because what is more representative to stat? The > >Gauss curve, of course! What looks like a Gauss curve? The inchworm: > > > Erling B. Andersen tells in his paper in "Rasch Models: Foundations, > Recent Developments, and Applications" > edited by G. H. Fischer and I. W. Molenaar: > "Georg Rasch had a very obvious animosity towards the normal > distribution. At certain occasions, when we had all > consumed a generous amount of alcohol, he would invite all persons > present to a party on his front lawn to burn all books containing the > word 'normal distribution'."
However, Erling himself was (as you may know, he died in September, only just over a month away from his retirement) no stranger to models in which a Gaussian random effect was allowed in the Rasch model. And Rasch's life-long hobby horse was "measurement methods", which sort of fits rather nicely with other aspects of the inchworm theme. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
