Re: st: about residuals and coefficients

[Yuval Arbel <yuval.arbel@gmail.com>]

Nick, that's very interesting. Are we talking about Stigler the econ.
noble prize winner?

An excellent example for what Nick said is the theory of relativity
attributed to Einstein.

According to what I know - Einstein was not the one who developed some
of its formulas - but he was the first to understand the far-reaching
importance of the formulas.

Regarding Gauss and the normal distribution - I mentioned it in
another thread. In his book (Is God A Mathematician) the physicist
Mario Livio implies that Gauss was not the original developer of the
normal distribution

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> This general phenomenon whereby discoveries are not named after their
> discoverers was labelled Stigler's Law by Stephen Stigler. The name is
> itself a deliberate example.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy
>
> In this case the name is common in economics and draws attention to
> early work in that field. Disciplinary spectacles are often blinkers.
> A measure based on sum of squared fractions which economists often
> name after Hirschman and/or Herfindahl and ecologists often name after
> Simpson was earlier used by Gini. The Gaussian distribution was
> arguably not first discovered by Gauss, nor the Poisson distribution
> by Poisson.
>
> However, credit is often, indeed usually, tricky. Often X discovers
> something, but it takes Y to realise how important it is and Z to
> convince the world. Several people worked with log odds before Berkson
> but he deserves most of the credit for pushing what we now see as
> logit models.
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 5 September 2013 04:24, David Hoaglin <dchoaglin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The article by Filoso performs a valuable service by calling attention
>> to the "Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem." I wish more people, especially
>> authors of textbooks, were aware of that property of  regression.
>>
>> I do not understand, though, why that result should be called a
>> theorem or why it should be attributed to Frisch, Waugh, and Lovell.
>> A 1907 paper by Yule contains a more-general result.
>>
>> David Hoaglin
>>
>> G. Udny Yule (1907).  On the theory of correlation for any number of
>> variables, treated by a new system of notation.  Proceedings of the
>> Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical
>> and Physical Character.  79:182-193.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Daljit Dhadwal <ddhadwal@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Another Stata command/article that may be helpful to you in
>>> understanding/explaining the coefficients in the multiple regression
>>> equation is the following: Regression anatomy, revealed by Valerio
>>> Filoso in the Stata Journal (Volume 13 Number 1: pp. 92-106). If you
>>> don’t have access to the Stata journal, there’s an older version of
>>> the article here:
>>> http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=valerio_filoso
>>>
>>> Information on the command is available through: ssc des reganat
>>>
>>> Daljit Dhadwal
>>
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