Patrick Burns wrote: > Douglas Bates wrote: > > >> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >> > > No. If Stigler's Law were named after some prior person, > then it wouldn't be an example of itself. > Only if said person actually was first to discover it, surely.
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