Hi folks back again:
Bob, yes I said guess (which is the only strategy if one does not know
exactly). Here is what I found in:
Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary -includes definition (English),
illustration, phonic pronunciation, origin, thesaurus (indexed Oct 10 1997)
Main Entry: eigenvalue
Karl,
yes it
is as German as your name.Value means "Wert" and eigenvalue means "Eigenwert"
and I guess it goes back to Carl Friedrich Gauss who provided us with many math
concepts,i.e. matrix algebra among many others.
In
Germany we honor him very much.His portrait is on our 10 DM bill,with
Hi Dennis et al.
The best reference concerning regression to the mean(rtm) is Dave Kenny!
Bookmark his homepage:
http://nw3.nai.net/~dakenny/kenny.htm
(Its an exciting one for still others reason than rtm )
Dave had finalized a book about rtm which he had started to write which the
late Don