Hello Doug
here is an answer to your question (see below) provided by some kindly
statisticians
blaine
From: Richard Scheaffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:18 PM
To: Applebaugh, Gwendolyn N.
Subject: Re: [tips] History of z-scores
On the other hand, you might try these references. It seems that Fisher
never gave a good reason as to why he called this statistic z.
Dick
The terms z and the z DISTRIBUTION were introduced by R. A. Fisher in "On a
Distribution Yielding the Error Functions of Several well Known Statistics"
<http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/digitised/fisher/36.pdf> , Proceedings
of the International Mathematics Congress, Toronto (1924).
Fisher's development of the analysis of variance in this paper and in his
book Statistical Methods for Research Workers
<http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Fisher/Methods/index.htm> (1925) was based
on the z distribution. Fisher's z is related to the modern F by z = ยจ ln F
[See http://members.aol.com/jeff570/z.html
and
http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/coll/special//fisher/36.pdf]
Dick
On 10/1/07 7:43 PM, "Richard Scheaffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sorry to say that I do not know the answer to this, but you might find
it
in the Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms if you can locate a copy in
a
library.
Dick Scheaffer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallen, Douglas J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [tips] History of z-scores
Hello all,
I have wondered occasionally why z-scores were named "z" and who named them.
I have done some browsing for the information but have not yet located it.
Does anyone have a reference or knowledge of the z-score's origins?
Thanks,
Douglas Wallen
Psychology Department, AH 23
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (507) 389-5818
---
---
