[OT] "normal" (as in "Guassian")
Douglas Bates wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> 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.
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