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- Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law?
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:53:46 GMT
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- charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
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- >Of course this is a special case of Zipf's law and so is an instance of
- >Stigler's law of eponomy: "No scientific discovery is named for its
- >discoverer".
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- Thus bringing up the question: Who invented Stigler's Law?
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