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Re: st: "analytics"
Merriam Webster claims it's from 1590.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/analytics
Which just goes to show. Although the definition doesn't match the
way that SPSS and SAS use it.
J
On 28/12/2007, David Airey <[email protected]> wrote:
> .
>
> Where did this word come from? It strikes me as one of those words
> that is made up by the business community. Was it? Or was it made up
> by statisticians? Wikipedia and Wiktionary are not satisfying in their
> explanation. The term permeates SAS and SPSS sites pages, but not
> Stata pages. I think that's a good thing.
>
> -Dave
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