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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.183758.14778@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec26.011139.23587@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Dec26.110116.1258@netcom.com> <BzvAs7.sI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:37:58 GMT
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- In article <BzvAs7.sI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.110116.1258@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- >>Steve Gardner writes:
- >>"Imagine having to pay Newton for the
- >> algorithm for calculating the derivative of a polynomial."
- >
- >>Actually, Sir R.A. Fisher did something somewhat analogous to that
- >>(the publication/ academic equivalent). He invented the method of
- >>maximum likelihood, a powerful general method for deriving all sorts
- >>of statistical tests, and kept it a secret. He then derived one test
- >>after another, published each one separately in the journals, and got
- >>payment for each usage of the method, in effect, in the form of kudos
- >>if not money.
- >
- >This is the utter nonsense put out by the admirers of Sir Ronald who
- >keep blissfully unaware of what everyone else knew and did. I do not
- >doubt that he rediscovered maximum likelihood, and that mathematical
- >statistic was in the doldrums at that time, but there were those who
- >knew the at least century old method, and were using it quietly.
-
- Don't complain or assert "utter nonsense" to me, Herman Rubin; I got
- the account directly from my old M.I.T. Statistics Professor, R.A.
- Freeman. As a famous and well informed Professor (perhaps you know his
- works), he'd hardly have been "blissfully unaware of what everyone else
- knew and did."
-
- David
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- David Sternlight
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