David Scott wrote:
but if any of us are to do
likewise I guess we will either pay up or secretly write code and play
around with diamond graphs while hidden in the basement.
Okay, lets stand up and be counted: who has been writing diamond graph
code? Mine's 60 lines.
Like others I welcome the
Talking about Excel, you can produce excellent graphs in Excel. Yes you
have to work at it, but you can get there. The problem is that they are
not the default. My gut feeling is that R will make more of an impact in
the presentation of graphics than any implementation in Excel.
So even if a pate
I have been reading this "discussion" (or debate, depends on your point of
view) with great interest in the last few days.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, David Scott wrote:
> My reaction when learning of a proposed patent on a new graph was: "oh
> well, that's something I can forget about". Without a pat
My reaction when learning of a proposed patent on a new graph was: "oh
well, that's something I can forget about". Without a patent, code would
have been available in R in a very short period of time, the statistical
community would have been able to play around with it, see how it worked
on v
On Wed, 27-Aug-2003 at 01:40PM -0400, Alvaro Muñoz wrote:
|> Drs. Harrell and O'Keefe,
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|> Thank you for your suggestions.
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|> Although it is at odds with your beliefs, University staff working
|> on licensing and technology transfer believe that a patent may be a
|> vehicle to achi
Alvaro Muñoz wrote:
Drs. Harrell and O'Keefe,
Although it is at odds with your beliefs, University staff working on
licensing and technology transfer believe that a patent may be a vehicle to
achieve a wide use. The audience of the proposed methods would be the end
users who are not sophisticated
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:40:59 -0400
Alvaro Muñoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Drs. Harrell and O'Keefe,
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> Thank you for your suggestions.
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> Regarding your comments about the content of the paper, I respectfully
> disagree that "categorizing continuous variables is a fundamental vi
Drs. Harrell and O'Keefe,
Thank you for your suggestions.
Regarding your comments about the content of the paper, I respectfully
disagree that "categorizing continuous variables is a fundamental violation
of statistical graphics," nor are you to assume that all categorizations are
arbitrary.
