On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 00:43 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15-Jun-07 19:43:55, John Kane wrote: > > --- Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 6/15/07, Nicholas Lewin-Koh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > [...] > >> I think you mean A, not Z. First there was S, then > >> there was R. > > > > We're regressing !!!! > > But not to mediocrity! [1] > Ted. > > [1] Practical Regression and Anova using R > Julian J. Faraway (July 2002), page 15. > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Faraway-PRA.pdf
Which in turn is of course paraphrasing Galton's "Regression Toward Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature”. Journal of the Anthropological Institute 15 : 246-63, 1886. http://galton.org/essays/1880-1889/galton-1886-jaigi-regression-stature.pdf :-) Regards, Marc ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
