Douglas Bates wrote: > ... > 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?
The complaint has been around for a long time. Zeno's paradox "Achilles and the tortoise" is said to have been first enunciated by Parmenides. Perhaps Stigler should have titled his paper "Stigler's Law of Lathosonyms". Jim ______________________________________________ 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.
