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Re: st: about residuals and coefficients
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: about residuals and coefficients
Date
Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:03:19 +0100
The Gaussian is usually attributed to de Moivre. That's a bit of a
stretch, though. I'll have to read the book you cited.
My recollection is that Einstein really does deserve all the credit he
gets for special and general relativity. The main problem with
Einstein's reputation is comparatively trivial, the number of
misattributed quotations encapsulating some homespun philosophy.
Nick
[email protected]
On 5 September 2013 10:42, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On 5 September 2013 04:24, David Hoaglin <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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>
>
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