On 4 Mar 2008, at 08:20, Ingmar Visser wrote: > Wikipedia says: > > Stigler attributes the discovery of Stigler's Law to Robert K. Merton > (which makes the law self-referencing). >
Stigler's law certainly applies in mathematics, where standard procedure is to name a concept in honour of the first person after Euler to have (re)discovered it. rksh > (Working as a historian of science he should have proceeded to name > the law Merton's law only to find out > later that actually someone had discovered it even earlier.) > > Ingmar > > [edit] > On 3 Mar 2008, at 19:17, Douglas Bates wrote: > >>>> >>>> -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst and Neutral Theorist, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.