Consider the following excerpts from the ASA Ethical Guidelines for Statistical
Practice (http://www.amstat.org/profession/ethicalstatistics.html). My naive
interpretation is that the ASA may endorse patenting statistical innovations or making
them proprietary. What's your interpretation?
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Make new statistical knowledge widely available, in order to provide
benefits to society at large beyond your own scope of
applications. Statistical methods may be broadly applicable to many
classes of problem or application. (Statistical innovators may well be
entitled to monetary or other rewards for their writings, software, or
research results.)
Make new statistical knowledge widely available in order to benefit
society at large. (Those who have funded the development of new
statistical innovations are entitled to monetary and other rewards for
their resulting products, software, or research results.)
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T.S. Lim
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